PSYC18H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.docx
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Role of the body in shaping and sustaining experience. Next time something happens, it happens faster. When we talk about william james, we have 3 pieces to it (1) william says there are bodily feedbacks that come from face/gut and postural position and this feedback goes in a feedback loop sustaining the emotion. It"s like a relation among noetic and organic. Psychodynamic approach says that early from life, certain situations (involving family, etc. ) become symbolic. Example: hearing conflict between parents and hearing that throughout your life. That conflict becomes a sub theme of your life. If it"s powerful, you can become sensitive to it later. If they are sensitive later on, you know something powerful happened early in life. Psychodynamic: (1) critical events happen early on. They become paradigmatic for you. (2) these are generally unresolved. You are carrying on your emotions like a person carrying an emotional baggage. Coping and defense mechanisms: defense mechanisms because it avoids it intensity.
