PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Libido, Ego Ideal

• School: SUNY Geneseo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Schneider Monica

Document Summary

1)id- unconscious, grati cation, energy (libido), not reality or mood based- primary process, wish ful llment, inborn. 3)superego- conscious, morality becomes more set in stone. Ego ideal, conscience, imposes guilt to the conscience, gauges direction you go w/ morals. How structure exists --> con ict, con ict behavior, dealing w/con ict. Ego defense mechanisms: freud: 3 types of anxiety. 2 other types- intrapsychic threatening to break through to conscious, fuzzy/unclear energy, unsettling something you want and ignore ego (reality, middle) and increase in anxiety as event is to occur. Neurotic: id-ego con ict, id creates energy and ego is trying to deal with it & Moralistic: id-superego con ict, feeling of guilt in pit of stomach, try to justify. Commonly seen in vets & how they deal with what they went through. Repression/suppression: hostility (davidson), distort, repression & coping with (coifman et al ) Repression: all engage, some use it more than others.