PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Toilet Training
11 Dec 2018
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Three interacting forces (according to freud): (the id and the superego are complete opposites) Id pleasure principle (the devil: the drives that are present at birth; is the source of bodily needs, wants, disires. Comes up with a comprise between the id and the superego. 6we shift unacceptable wishes or drives to a neutral or less threatening alternative (getting a frustration onto a safer victim) Psychosexual stages: distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experiences sexual pleasures from specific body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasures. Erotogenic zone: particular region that dominates child"s subjective experience. Fixation: phenomenon in which a person"s pleasure seeking drive becomes psychologically stuck or arrested at a particular psychosexual stage. Oral: the infants experiences with the pleasures and frustrations associated with the mouth, sucking, and being fed: (infancy) the first half year of life, communication, eating.
