PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Superego Records
11 Apr 2017
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Psychosocial perspective: sigmund freud biased towards males. Free association: method of exploring the unconscious in which a person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind. Studied people"s dreams: dreams: could reveal the nature of inner conflicts. Unconscious: reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Personality is the result of our efforts to resolve a conflict between impulse and restraint. Psychosexual stages: the childhood stages of development during which the id"s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones (chart below) Pleasure centers on the mouth sucking biting, chewing. Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping for demands of control. Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings. Repression: anxiety-arousing impulses or memories are pushed into the unconscious mind. Regression: people regress to a more infantile psychosexual stage where some psych energy remains fixated.
