PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phallic Stage, Latency Stage, Anal Stage
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Instincts: strong innate forces that provide all the energy in the psychic system. Freud"s original theory of instincts was influenced by darwin"s theory of evolution. In initial formulation, two instinct classes: self-preservation instincts, sexual instincts. In later formulation, freud collapsed self-preservation and sexual instincts into one, called life instict (libido), added death instinct (thanatos) S3-4: question: although freud initially believed that the life instinct and death instinct to oppose one another, he later argued that they could combine in various ways, consider the act of eating. Eating obviously serves the life instinct, entailing consumption of nutrients necessary for survival. S5: unconscious motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do what we do: human mind consists of 3 parts. Contains thoughts, feelings, and images about which you are presently aware. Contains information you are not presently thinking about, but can be easily retrieved and made conscious. S6: unconscious motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do what we do: unconscious:
