3750:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Reality Principle, Sexual Repression, Carl Jung
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Personality personality- an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Childhood, sexuality, and unconscious motivations psychoanalysis > psychodynamic. Thoughts and unconscious actions due to unconscious motives and con icts. Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive needs: superego - internalized ideas. Morality : ego - the largely conscious, executive part of personality. Mediates demand of the id, superego, and reality reality principle- satisfy the id"s desires in healthy ways. Id"s pleasure: seeking energies focus on erogenous zones (pleasure sensitive areas on body) Xation: pleasure seeking tendencies stuck at earlier stage. Unresolved con icts defense mechanisms: protective method - used to lessen anxiety. For freud, defense mechanisms function indirectly and unconsciously: repression - main defense mechanism. Banishing thoughts, feelings, and memories can cause anxiety away from the person"s conscious. Primary defense, basis for all other defenses: regression - retreating to an earlier psychosexual stage where psychic energy remains.
