MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Polymorphous Perversity, Reality Principle, Freudian Slip
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An appetite for something that promises enjoyment, satisfaction, and pleasure in its attainment. reality principle. The constant curbing of desire according to possibility, law, or social convention. repression. The process of mentally containing our desires below conscious recognition or expression. unconscious lack. The structure within the psyche (i. e. mind) that keeps trying to make its desires felt while remaining continually repressed. A psychoanalytic concept that describes the gap separating imaginary pleasures and lived reality. Associated with the pleasure principle the uncontrollable human drive to satisfy desire, including libido, human sexual desire. The one and only urge of the id is toward satisfaction. It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality . Associated with the reality principle the constant curbing of desire according to possibility; laws, both written and unwritten; and social convention. Acts according to the reality principle and seeks to please the id"s drive in realistic ways.
