PSYC 1101 Lecture 12: Chapter 12
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Our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. View personality focus on the: unconscious, childhood experiences. Derived from freud"s psychoanalysis personality and the associated treatment techniques. It"s all about conflict: impulse and restraint. Identification: children incorporate their parents" values into developing superegos, fixation, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. Anal (18 36 months) pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control. Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings. Latency (6 to puberty) a phase of dormant sexual feelings. The ego protective methods of reducing anxiety by: repression banishes from consciousness the thoughts, feelings, and memories that arouse anxiety. Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated. A little boy reverts to the oral comfort of thumb sucking in the car on the way to his first day of school. Repressing angry feelings, a person displays exaggerated friendliness.
