PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Homicide, Oedipus Complex, Genetic Predisposition
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Psychoanalysis: theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by sigmund freud, emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts. Psychodynamic theories: explain behaviour and personality in terms of unconscious energy dynamics. Personality: relatively stable pattern of behaviour, thought, motives, and emotions. Trait: characteristic of an individual describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or feeling. The structure of personality: three major systems, id, ego, and superego, id. Part of personality containing inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instincts. Referee between needs and demands of society. Represents, reason, good sense, rational self control: superego. Judges activities, guilt vs. pride: defence mechanisms. Methods used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or threatening thoughts from entering consciousness: repression. Threatening idea, memory, or emotion blocked from consciousness: projection. Person"s own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and attributed to someone else: displacement. Direct emotions toward someone else: regression. Person reverts to previous psychological phase: denial.
