PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13a: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Erogenous Zone

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Marcel Viens

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. This is how freud discovered the unconscious . Free association : a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind (in psychoanalysis) Believed he could trace the line of the patient"s past using free association chain of thought leading to patient"s unconscious. Psychoanalysis : freud"s theory of personality that attributes thought and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious : a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories (freud), information processing which we are unaware (contemporary psychologists) Although we are not aware of the thoughts and feelings in our unconscious, they powerfully influence us. Id : operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Ego : operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id"s desires in ways that are realistic.