PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Freudian Slip, Nomothetic, Iceberg
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Personality: a person"s characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and acting. A dynamic organization of systems that create these characteristics [the how approach] Trail approach, humanism, other models like self [what approach] Psychodynamic and neofreudians, humanism(ish), behavioural and social learning [how approach] Identify general laws that govern behaviour of all. Contrast: ideographic approaches which explain personality of one person. Freud used therapy and what his patients were saying to develop his theories of personality. Core assumptions of psychoanalytic theory: psychic determinism. All psychological events have unconscious cause: we don"t choose our actions. All actions result of unconscious behaviour, driven by needs such as sex and death: symbolic meaning. No action is meaningless; they are always symbolic of something else. The unconscious is origin of all psychic energy. When it"s tied to sex or death [more often sex] At and just below the surface are preconscious, like memories. Not exactly in conscious but can be pulled to conscious.
