PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Unconscious Mind, Freudian Slip, Reaction Formation
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Psya02 lecture 11 personality development (psychodynamic view) Trained as physiologist and an expert in observation which marked his work thereafter. Fascinated by ailments that seemed to have physiological cause. Came to believe that all human behavior is motivated by instinctual desires that provide psychic energy. These drives could be unconscious as well as conscious. The manner in which our internal energies are released determines our personalities. Conscious mind: current awareness, containing everything you are aware of right now. Unconscious mind: a much more vast and powerful but inaccessible part of your consciousness, operating without your conscious endorsement or will to influence and guide your behaviors. A cauldron full of seething excitations filled with energy reaching it from the instincts. Only a striving to bring about that satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the pleasure principle. The pleasure principle: the desire to obtain immediate gratification in whatever form it may take.
