PSYCH 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Preconscious, Erogenous Zone, Castration Anxiety
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Moved to vienna, austria at age of 4. Freud went to medical school, set up his own practice, specializing in nervous disorders. Noticed that his patients" symptoms were not explainable from neurological perspective - maybe there are psychological causes. Currently outside of awareness, but can be easily brought into awareness. Is the most important part according to freud. The urges (and etc) exert a continuing influence on later actions. Is a storehouse for unacceptable urges, feelings, wishes, and ideas and conscious experience. According to freud, personality arises from the conflict bw our aggressive, pleasure-seeking impulses, and the internal and social restraints against them. Id is the only component present at birth. Contains basic drives to survive, reproduce, and act aggressively. Pleasure principle (id): all needs should be satisfied immediately. Makes sure the id"s impulses are expressed in effective and realistic ways, taking into account the demands of the external world. The ego functions mainly in the conscious and preconscious.
