PSY 105 Chapter Notes -Sigmund Freud, Reality Principle, Libido

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

In freud"s view, psychoanalytic view, the personality forms as a result of struggles b/w primal needs & social/moral restrains. All his theories are psychodynamic b/c of his notion that personality & behaviour are shaped by interacting/dynamic underlying processes. There are 3 central forces in personality development: basic instinctual drives (id), rational thoughts (ego) & moral limits (superego): Id=present at birth, represents basic drives & desires, eg. eating, sleeping, sex & comfort; these are governed by the pleasure principle, ie. they constantly drive for gratification. The psychoanalytic model was formulated by sigmund freud at the beginning of the 20th century. He takes on a psychoanalytic view, the personality forms as a result of struggles b/w primal needs & social/moral restraints. All theories that have the basic notion that personality & behaviour are shaped by interacting/dynamic underlying forces are called psychodynamic theories. There are 3 central forces in personality development: basic instinctual drives (id), rational thoughts (ego) & moral limits (superego)