PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Repetition Compulsion, Adaptive Control
12 Sep 2016
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Psychoanalysis: psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy guided by psychoanalytic theory. Theory of personality, approach to studying personality + procedures for assessing and changing personality. All theories emphasize the primacy of driving forces within person that motivate them to display consistent patterns of behaviour + interpersonal relations. Most psychoanalytic theorists contend that motivating forces derive from processes that occur beyond the conscious awareness of the individual. Believed that personality develops over course of progression through invariant sequence of stages characterized by intrapsychic conflict. 4 basic issues in personality psychology: theory, assessment, research, application. Ego: reality-oriented aspect of personality; also mediates the demands of other aspects of personality. Superego: ideals + moral standards of one"s parents + culture. Unconscious: part of the mind containing information of which the person has no knowledge. Preconscious: part of the mind that contains information that one is not immediately aware of but that one can easily become aware of.
