PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Erogenous Zone, Oedipus Complex, Job Performance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Personality- someone"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Freud turned to free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Freud called his theory of personality and the associated treatment technique psychoanalysis. Id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operated on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification: ego: the largely conscious, executive part of personality that according to. Freud mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. Freud believed personality forms during life"s first few years. Psychosexual stages: the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to freud, the id"s pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.