PSYA02H3 Final: Lecture Notes for Final

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Psych lecture 18 - personality (freud"s psychodynamic theory) Psychodynamic approach name meaning psycho: psyche, dynamic: (psychic/mental) energy. Interplay between the three elements are important elements of self, which each person has that are always at play which determine how we think/feel. Three elements : id (primarily unconscious, we don"t understand what is happening in the id, we only understand the outcome) According to freud, ego and superego is not completely conscious. Defense mechanisms work at the level of the ego and superego; it also controls the impulses of the id, which takes energy. This interplay b/w the ego superego and id which requires energy, but when one has to spend a lot of energy regulating conflicts the individual is susceptible to mental illness. When we have impulses from the id, we evoke defense mechanisms (which takes mental energy to defend itself from upsets of impulses of id)