PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ego Ideal, Personal Unconscious, Collective Unconscious
2 Oct 2017
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As stated in chapter 3, freud initially believed all human motivation was broadly sexual. In other words, all human behavior is motivated by pleasure seeking, involving the release of libidinal energy. Yet societies place obstacles in the way of completely or even predominantly satisfying our please seeking drives. In capsule form, freud"s theory of personality deals with how people handle their sexual needs in relation to society, which often prevents the direct expression of those needs. Each individual"s personality is therefore a result of a unique compromise between satisfying sexual drives and conforming to society"s restraints. Thanatos, in opposition to the life drive, or eros). Aggressive drive- the aggressive drive accounts for the destructive aspects of human behavior and has its own kind of psychic energy. The development and function of the aggressive drive and the sexual drive are parallel.
