PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eastern Philosophy, Rational Function, Middle Ages

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

Document Summary

1 | p s y c h 2 b 3. With motivation, jung agreed with freud that behaviour is powered by instinctual energy, but viewed the nature of that energy differently. Like freud, he viewed the energy as libido but did not see it as exclusively or primarily sexual. Libido is a general life force that is directed to different problems and endeavours as they occur. Moves from primarily biological needs in youth to more philosophical needs in adulthood. Jung also believed in principle of equivalence amount of libido available is fixed. Where freud say the dynamics of personality in terms of life-long conflicts between psychic structures , jung saw these dynamics as balancing, joining, synergistic, etc. If it is used for one aspect of psyche, less is available for others. When energy is withdrawn from one function or activity, it appears in another7.