PSYB30H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7_Textbook Notes.docx
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We are not the masters of our fate. Most influential psychologist of 20th century => sigmund freud. Heart of psychoanalytic view of personality is freud"s theory of motivation. 4 propositions: determinism, drive, conflict, the unconscious. The forces that determine our behaviour and experience are in conflict with one another. These forces live within us and can be traced back to drives or instincts. The things that cause anxiety in our lives is in our unconscious. We have no control over our lives. Freud believed sexuality and aggression serve as the primal energy sources for psychological life. Saw the mind as machine that used energy drawn from biological instincts: sexuality and all other life instincts, aggression and all other death instincts. Our instincts get played out in fantasies and dreams and get expressed in very subtle ways of everyday life. People cannot know the real reasons for what they do.
