PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Projective Test, Agreeableness, Inferiority Complex
9 Aug 2018
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Personality consists of all the consistent ways in which the behavior of one person differs from that of others, especially in social situations. Sigmund freud developed the first psychodynamic theory relates personality to the interplay of conflicting roles, including unconscious ones, within the individual. Psychoanalysis = method of explaining and dealing with personality, based on the interplay of conscious and unconscious forces. Unconscious = a repository of memories, emotions, and thoughts, many of them illogical, that affect our behavior even though we cannot talk about them. During early childhood, every boy goes through an oedipus complex develops a sexual interest in his mother and competitive aggression toward his father. Psychosocial pleasure = all strong, pleasant excitement arising from body stimulation. People have a psychosexual energy, called the libido. Focused on mouth during infancy and flows to other body parts as the child grows older.
