PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Margaret Mahler, Carl Jung, Penis Envy
22 Nov 2011
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Personality- distinctive ways of thinking, feeling and acting that characterize responses to life situations. Perceived organization and structure attributed to personality guided by psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, behavioural, cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives. Charcot conversion hysteria (paralysis and blindness) (freud decided unconscious influence) Conducted extensive self-analysis on own dreams (1900-interpretation of. Psychoanalysis became theory of personality, approach to the mind and method for treating psycho disorders. Freud personality a psychic energy direct/indirect release, ie. sexual drive build-up = sexual activity. Mental events: conscious (aware), preconscious (things recalled), unconscious (desires, wishes, feelings) Id- irrational and seeks immediate instinctual satisfaction based on pleasure principle. Ego- reality principle, mediate between id, superego and reality. Superego- morals id impulses out of control or danger from environment anxiety ego develops defence mechanisms, permit instinctual gratification (disguised) Psychosexual theory: adult personality moulded by how children deal with instinctual urges and social reality during oral, anal and phallic stages.
