CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Electra Complex, Intellectualization, Factor Analysis

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Personality: your unique and lasting way of thinking, feeling, behaving, etc. Personality is studied by every perspective in psychology. Psychodynamic perspective: our personality is three separate and interactive elements, they are separate entities in your mind. Id: the unconscious, the sexual and aggressive urges that you are born with, the core of your personality, the urges that drive your thoughts and behaviors, id is the pleasure principle of what you want to do. Ego: the you that is out there in the world, your self in reality, operates by reality principle, or what has to be done and dealt with, the ego does not always make the right decision. Superego: transverses conscious and unconscious, the part of our personality that always want to do the right thing, the moral branch of our personality, develops later than the id. Personality according to freud: he sees a constant conflict between your desires and what society dictates.