MDSA01H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 notes
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The pleasure principle (referred by freud) is how different drives arise from different sources and seek out different objects in the world, but all of them ultimately seeks satisfaction through the achievement of these objects. Object(s) of a drive and the kind of satisfaction it sells are highly variable, differing from person to person. It is the variability of objects and aims that distinguishes drive from hard-wired instinct. Freud"s theory of the drives attempts to account for the wide variety of motivating tastes and practices that we see uniquely manifest among human beings. When one cannot achieve their drives, the drives become frustrated, repressed, or sublimated (redirected into easier or more socially acceptable channels) The reality principle (referred by freud) is constant curbing of the drives according to possibility, law or social conventions and in the interplay between pleasure-seeking and the realistic limits placed on that activity, human mental structure is born.
