PSY-P 155 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Phallic Stage, Oedipus Complex, Genital Stage
4 Nov 2018
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Personality: a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world. Psychodynamic perspectives: emphasize that personality is primarily unconscious; these unconscious forces are too frightening to be part of our awareness. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: developed psychoanalysis through his work with patients suffering from hysteria and concluded that hysterical symptoms were overdetermined, meaning they had many causes in the unconscious -> everything we do has an unconscious cause. Hysteria: physical symptoms that have no physical cause. The id: the unconscious drives that make up the individual"s reservoir of sexual energy; it has no contact with reality and seeks immediate gratification; pleasure principle. The ego: deals with the demands of reality; it tries to get the id what it wants within the norms of society; is partly conscious and houses higher mental functions; reality principle.
