PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: The Conscious Mind, Ego Ideal, Unconscious Mind
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According to attachment theory, we form emotional bonds with our caregivers, which become mental representations, called internal working models, of all future intimate relationships. Just as the body used energy to carry out its bodily functions of breathing, blood circulation, muscular and glandular activity, he reasoned that there had to be a similar source of energy for the mind. He called this energy psychic energy and believed that psychic energy fuelled the functions of the mind including thinking, imagining, and remembering. Freud"s original german word for what we call instincts was trieb, but the. English word impulse really comes closer to capturing the concept freud was trying to describe. We can think of an instinct or impulse like a tension, or an excitation originating from within the body. There are as many impulses as there are bodily needs. We first feel an impulse in that body, like an itch, must somehow be satisfied.
