PSYB30H3 Lecture 19: Lecture 19
Document Summary
Freud and all of his intellectual descendents play a central role on the deep unconscious processes that exist inside us. By virtue of their focus on the deep subject of people, unconscious drives, notion of ancestral collective unconscious, all of these suggest that these are elements most suited to deepest level of personality description of narrative. Freud offered bold outline of what personality may be, it was a structural, developmental one. Goal with to provide grand unified theory on all human behaviour related to personality. He distinguished between the ego executive, id reservoir of libidinal energy and source of primitive drives, and superego not equal to conscious performs functions of conscious with moral intention. Dynamical distinction between conscious, pre conscious, and unconscious mind and that there are some tensions that exist between these levels as anxiety producing thoughts are suppressed from conscious into unconscious. Sequence of stages from oral-anal-phallic - genital latency.
