PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -The Emotions, Erogenous Zone, Collective Unconscious

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

Document Summary

Freud believed that the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Believed he could glimpse the unconscious seeping not only into people"s free associations, beliefs, habits, and symptoms but also into slips of the tongue and pen. Manifest content the remembered content of dreams. Human personality arises from a conflict between impulse and restraint. Three interacting systems of the mind; the id, ego, and superego. Id: strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. Psychosexual stages: the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which the id"s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones. Pleasure centers on the mouth sucking, biting, chewing.