PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reaction Formation

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Johnachee

Document Summary

Lecture 7: freud"s view of the mind, conflict and anxiety. * psychology conflict- some part of mind being disagree with the other part of mind. *only the ego can perform activities that take place in the real world. * the ego must constantly decide not to balance the desire of the id and the moral demands of the super ego. * if the id and superego are in conflict, this creates anxiety, which the ego must reduce or eliminate: ego defense mechanisms. 1) repression (most important first step in id vs. superego) * ego take something from consciousness to unconsciousness. * placing uncomfortable thoughts in relatively inaccessible areas of the subconscious mind. * contrast from normal forgetting, repression is motivational forgetting. * your id thinks something had happened, even it did not happened: sublimation energy away from distructive acts into something that is socially acceptable and creatively effective. * redirecting wrong" urges into socially acceptable actions.