PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Jung, Unconscious Mind, Collective Unconscious
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Our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that is: somewhat consistent over time, somewhat consistent across situations. Freud- psychoanalytic theories (1856-1939) spent most of life in vienna, austria. Born to jewish parents in the czech republic. Heavy cigar smoker/proponent of cocaine use fi(cid:396)st fo(cid:396)(cid:373)al theo(cid:396)(cid:455) of pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) (cid:862)ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoa(cid:374)al(cid:455)ti(cid:272)(cid:863) received medical degree first to focus on unconscious: two main elements: 3 parts to personality: behavior is caused by dynamic interplay of inner forces that often conflict. Conscious mind is what you are presently aware of: 2. Preconscious contains information which is not in your current awareness but which can be accessed with little effort (memory: 3. Unconscious mind is the part of our mind of which we cannot freely access. 3 separate but interacting structures of personality. Unhealthy personalities develop when we become too dependent upon defense mechanisms or when the is or superego is unusually strong or the ego unusually weak.
