PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Reality Principle, Defence Mechanisms, Phallic Stage
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The amount of energy an individual possessed remained constant throughout his lifetime, a personality change was viewed as a redirection of a person"s psychic energy. Basic instincts: sex and aggression: instincts innate forces that provided all the energy in the psychic system, theory is influenced by darwin"s theory of evolution, two fundamental categories of instincts: self-preservation instincts and sexual instincts. Unconscious motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do what we. Any piece of information that you are not presently thinking about, but could be easily be retrieved and made conscious, is found in the preconscious mind: unconscious mind the largest part of the human mind. Unacceptable information hidden from conscious view so well that it cannot be considered preconscious. These memories, feelings, thoughts and urges are so troubling or distasteful that being aware of tem would make the person anxious: eg, incest, hatred towards siblings, parents or spouses, memories of childhood traumas.
