PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Castration Anxiety, Libido, Reality Principle
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What is personality: personality, an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting, basic (historical) perspectives, psychoanalytic, humanistic, modern perspectives, the trait approach, approaches to the self. What caused this fear: freud believed that the real target of hans" anxiety was his erotic feelings towards his mother and his aggressive wishes towards his father, evidence, hans wanted to be married to his mother, hans experienced castration anxiety, hans was jealous of his father, hans was afraid of horses that had physical characteristics like his father. Freud"s three big models: of the mind, topographical, drive, structural, of development, of therapy. Structural model: there are three personality processes or mental forces (or intelligence, id, fueled by raw libido, obeys the pleasure principle, pure want, unconscious, ego, in service of the id, obeys the reality principle, most rational, conscious and preconscious, superego, (conscience) internalized rules of society and parents, purely rule based, conscious, preconscious, unconscious.
