PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Erection, Latency Stage, Anal Retentiveness
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Unconscious mind plays large role but before him no one looked at it. Still a lot of ongoing research and theorizing that originates from freud"s research. Eros/libido: the life instinct: does this by satisfying our need for hunger, thirst and sex. Thanatos: the death instinct: consisted of aggressive forces, thoughts and actions; the desire to return to an inorganic state where they would have peace. He proposed that: human existence was a constant struggle between life and death instinct, between individual"s desires and society: between forces that want to preserve the individual"s life and forces that wish to end the life. Tripartite model of the psyche: id: original and most primitive part. This is something everyone is born with. Even animals may have this: ego: realistic aspect satisfies demands of id and keeps it in check. The aspect that is in touch with reality and the world around us.
