PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The Conscious Mind, Unconscious Mind, Blindsight
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Unconscious motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do what. A closer look: examples of the unconscious: blindsight and. Structure of personality: psychoanalytic personality theory describes how people cope with their sexual and aggressive instincts within the constraints of a civilized society. Dynamicsof personality: defense mechanisms: efforts to defend oneself from anxiety, used against all forms of anxiety. Other defense mechanisms: fenichel focused on how these mechanisms function to protect self-esteem, events that can threaten self-esteem include failure, embarrassment, and being excluded. Personality and psychoanalysis: psychoanalysis: of psychotherapy, a technique for helping individuals who are experiencing a mental disorder or even relatively minor problems with living, deliberately restructuring the personality. Evaluation of freud"s contributions: opinions differ, controversy covered in taking sides: clashing views in personality psychology, proponents of psychoanalysis point to the major impact that freud"s theory has had on. Freud proposed a theory of human nature that has become highly infl uential.
