PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Preconscious, Puberty, Narcissism

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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Primitive > pleasure principle: raw biological urges, decision making > reality principle, reality principle: delay id urges until the right place and right time, desire for immediate satisfaction, superego, moral component > right and wrong. What are the different levels of awareness: conscious, preconscious, everything you"re aware of (reading these notes, things that just beneath the conscious level that can be easily retrieved (middle name, last night supper, unconscious, thoughts and memories under the surface of conscious (forgotten childhood trauma, okay page 553 basically talks about like how the levels of awareness are constantly in battle with. Second year: erotic pleasure from their bowel movements, phallic stage age 4 little boys develop an erotically tinged preference for their mother, oedipal complex: child erotic feelings for opposite sex parent and hate same sex parent, latency (7 11) and genital stage puberty.