PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Castration Anxiety, Preconscious, Psy
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An individual"s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. Five-year old hans was afraid to leave his house because of an irrational fear that a horse would bite him. Hans developed the fear after having seen a horse fall down in the street. Freud believed that the real target of han"s anxiety was his erotic feelings towards his mother and his aggressive wishes towards his father. Hans wanted to be married to his mother. Hans was afraid of horses that has physical characteristics like. In awareness now; rational and goal directed. Our basic drives of libido (sensual/sexual pleasure) and aggression are repressed, but they make stuff pop up elsewhere. Freud thought it was like a steam engine. Fueled by raw libido, obeys the pleasure principle. In service of the ids, obeys the reality principle. (conscience), internalized rules of society and parent"s.
