PSYC 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Ego Ideal, Reality Principle, Defence Mechanisms
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Personality: a person"s characteristic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Psychoanalysis: freud"s term for both his theory of personality and his therapy for the treatment of psychological disorders. Conscious: those thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories of which we are aware at ay given moment. Preconscious: the thoughts, feelings, and memories that we are not consciously aware of at the moment but that may be brought to consciousness. Unconscious: considered by freud to be the primary motivating force of behaviour, containing repressed memories as well as instincts and wishes that have never been allowed into consciousness. Id: the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle. Pleasure principle: the principle by which the id operates to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and obtain immediate gratification. Libido: freud"s name for the psychic, often sexual, energy that comes from the id and provides the energy for the entire personality.
