PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Unconscious Mind, Neurosis, Anna Freud

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Part iv: the hidden world of the mind: the psychoanalytic approach. Chapter 11: the workings of the unconscious mind: defenses and slips. Defense mechanisms the techniques the ego uses to keep certain thoughts and impulses hidden in order to avoid anxiety. Humors action, statement or joke allows an impulse or feeling ordinarily seen as inappropriate to be enjoyable or acceptable. Three aspects of reality: things we want, things that are possible and things that are morally right. Three psychic structures of the mind that battle each other. Id impulses; generates wants: superego provides moral judgment, ego tries to figure out rational thing to do. Psychic conflict occurs when a mind battles itself (id, ego, superego); result is anxiety. Compromise formation the ego trying to satisfy both the id and superego (at least a little: believed by modern psychologists (ego psychologists) to be the most important function of the ego.