PSY 3102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Freudian Slip, Cathexis, Preconscious
24 Jan 2020
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Defensiveness: the psyche"s unconscious effort to protect itself from anxiety. Noise: psychological obstacles that interfere with productive dialogue and harmonious relations with others. Psychological defensiveness: the unconscious influence (psycho) and irrational thought processes (logical) that hinder our ability to get along with others and communicate effectively. Irrational thought processes: bad thinking resulting from false reasoning. Motivational forces that direct and initiate behavior. Instincts/drives: biological in nature, cause tension, and hold psychic energy. Life instincts: sexual instincts ; deal with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction. Essential for sustaining life of individual and species. Death instincts: after a trauma is experienced; can internalize and reenact the experience; self- destructive behavior or aggression and violence towards others are behaviors that stem from instinct. this. Can be cathect (attach libido to it) or anti-cathect (inhibit libidinal investment and exert defense mechanism): pressure: amount of motivating influence/amount of energy an instinct has on an individual. Parts of the mind have spatial relationships to each other.
