ADMS 3502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Reaction Formation, Asceticism, Thanatos
21 May 2020
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Our role is to help change the bad behaviours into right ones. Religion attempts to squash this what we don"t understand about ourselves, if this erupts at the wrong time it can be catastrophic when you do something that surprises and shocks you. On the hidden: this is who we are, all we can do is try to control the behaviour that comes from this. Don"t say you shouldn"t think that but rather figure out where the thoughts come from. Every person is composed of 5 traits, we have a hardwired personality that needs to be balanced problems arise when we have difficulty reconciling these . The primitive part of the mind, repository of drives, major goal is. Superego judge or critic (divided into conscience and ego-ideal) structured by immediate gratification (no concern for rules, Ego culture/family that says even though there is opportunity to, you shouldn"t cheat because god wont like you .
