PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Preconscious

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

When you hear the term psychoanalytical it means it is freud"s original theory. When you hear the term psychodynamic it means it"s not freud"s original theory but was derived from his theory and changes around. Freud talked about instincts and believed there are two types of instincts: life instincts libido (sexual instincts, b) death instincts. Structures of personality: id is the structure that contains the instincts. Unconscious and has no contact with reality. The id can reduce the sexual aggressive tension in two ways: 1. Primary process thinking (fantasy: ego (develops 13 15 months) Helps the id get satisfaction in socially acceptable ways. Uses secondary-process thinking (real thinking, not fantasy and imagination) Based on the reality principle: superego (develops at about 4 years) It seeks perfection (moralistic goals take over realistic goals) Preconscious: mental events can become conscious through attention. Unconscious: mental events more or less available to consciousness. Sexual : refers to many urges for physical pleasure.