PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dream Interpretation, Psy, Erogenous Zone
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Personality an individual"s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors (persisting over time and across situations) Ego mostly unconscious; makes peace between id and superego. Mind is mostly hidden unacceptable passions and thoughts are repressed. Personality arises from a conflict between impulse and restraint. Id unconscious energy, operates on pleasure principle, unrestrained desires. Id is focused on the needs of erogenous zones, sensitive areas of body. People can get fixated at one stage. Need to resolve conflict at each stage. The oedipus complex boys in phallic stage (3-6) develop unconscious sexual desires for the mother and view father as rival. Resolution boys identify with fathers rather than seeing them as rivals. We are anxious about our unacceptable impulses (id), so ego represses this anxiety with the help of defense mechanisms. Freud tried to get unconscious themes to be projected into the conscious world through free association and dream analysis. Projective tests ambiguous prompts should reveal the inner workings of.
