Psychology 2035A/B Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - The Self

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Covers chapters 1, 2, 6, 7 and all lecture material. Mental events may be conscious, preconscious, or unconscious. Conscious - mental events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious - memories, thoughts, feelings, and images that we are unaware of at the moment but can be called into conscious awareness. Unconscious - a dynamic realm of wishes, feelings, and imposes that lies beyond our awareness. Only discharged through dreams, slips of the tongue, disguised behaviours. As a result of the ego in the middle of a psychic storm. The ego must achieve a compromise between the demands of the id, the constraints of the superego, and the demands of reality. This balancing act has resulted in the ego being referred to as the executive of personality . Superego - good people don"t think about those things. Ego - let"s figure out a way to work together. Psychoanalysts who disagreed with certain aspects of freud"s thinking and developed their own theories.