PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40-42: Electra Complex, Unconscious Mind, Oedipus Complex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Id unconscious psychic energy that constantly strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce and aggress operated in the pleasure. Ego reality principle seeks to gratify the id"s impulses in realistic ways that will bring long-term pleasure contains our partly conscious. Oral pleasure centers on the mouth sucking, biting, chewing. Anal pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination coping with. Phallic pleasure zone is the genitals coping with incestuous sexual. Latency a phase of dormant sexual feelings. Genital maturation of sexual interests: oedipus complex according to freud, a boy"s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father electra. Regression retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where. Reaction formation switching unacceptable impulses into their. Projection disguising one"s own threatening impulses by attributing. Rationalization offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one"s actions. Displacement shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more.