PSYB30H3 Final: Lecture 19 - notes for final
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Freud was introduced at the beginning of the course to illustrate an example of a personality theory. Although the freudian view is now obsolete, it offered a structural, detailed, unifying theory of personality behaviour and development. From a structural view, he distinguished between 3 levels of the psyche: id, ego, He also made a dynamical distinction between the conscious self, the preconscious and the unconscious mind. There are some tensions between these levels, as anxiety provokes thoughts and urges, and then these become repressed into the unconscious. From a developmental view, freud defined the oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital phases, each involving the organization of the libido around a particular erogenous zone. Classic personality theory tried to explain all the personality differences and commonalities, while contemporary personality theory tends to be much more limited in scope. Freud left a legacy that deserves respect he introduced the talking cure as an extension of his theorizing about personality.
