PSYCH 1N03 Lecture Notes - Castration Anxiety, Oedipus Complex, Electra Complex
7 Jan 2014
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Personality: an idea, an abstract concept that we use because it seems to express or capture something important about our experience. Often referred to as hypothetical constructs (ex: personality, memory, gravity, energy, etc. ) Hypothetical constructs help us to organize and understand our experiences. Human body is made of hour humours : blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Personality is determined by these humours (ex: melan for black and cholic for bile; often sad and wistful psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, behaviourist, cognitive approaches. Psychodynamic approach sees personality as generated by internal psychic structures or processes. Characteristics of internal structures in your mind, and the way they interact with each other, determine how we feel and behave. Source of basic instincts and motivational energy (libido) Seek pleasure (water, food, air, sex), avoid pain. Focused on upholding moral principles (maintain moral perfection by obeying rules and values) From parental control, self-control is established to form the superego.
