PSYCH 2010 Lecture 18: Day 23
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What is personality: personality, the unique pattern enduring thoughts, feelings, and actions that characterize a person, a psychological construct. Four main approaches to the study of personality: psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, social-cognitive. Freud"s conception of the personality structure: think of an iceberg, top of the iceberg: Conscious ego: real world (outside world, top half underwater of the iceberg. Innerworld (your mind: reality principle, bottom half of the iceberg (underwater) Id (pleasure principle: unconscious, pleasure principle, entire iceberg: Superego: conscience and ego ideal, personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses (id) and social restraints (superego) Freud"s conception of the personality structure: ego is the moderator between, id, superego, reality. Do whatever you have to do to get pleasure . Ego anxiety (freud: ego does not like anxiety, conflict between superego and id. If you steal (moral anxiety: conflict between ego and reality anxiety, conflict between id and ego.
