Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Raymond Cattell, Object Relations Theory, Big Five Personality Traits

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Cole

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Instinctual drive generates psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Personality is divided into three separate but interacting structures. The id exists entirely within the subconscious, and is the source of all psychic energy: no reality or logic, only gratification: pleasure principle o. Conflict, anxiety, and defence: when the ego confronts out-of-control impulses or danger, anxiety results, when realistic strategies prove ineffective, the ego may resort to defence mechanisms. Freud argued that excessive reliance on defence mechanisms was a primary cause of maladaptive or dysfunctional behaviour. If any stage doesn"t develop properly, the result is called fixation. : oral fixation: dependent, self-indulgent, anal fixation: reckless, careless, defiant, disorganized, aroused by poop (lolol, anal retentive: obsessively organized, genital: frigidity, impotence, unfulfilling relationships. Evaluating psychoanalytic theory: admittedly, freud was right about the strong influence of nonconscious mental and emotional phenomena.