SOCL 2001 Chapter : Lecture Notes Chapter 3 Culture Society And Diversity 2
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Exploring the unconscious: unconscious, freud said: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, modern psychologists say: information processing of which we are unaware. Id: unconscious; strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; operates on pleasure principle: ego, superego: partly conscious; represents internalized ideals; provides standards for judgment and future aspirations. Personality development: oedipus complex, electra complex: girls" parallel of the oedipus complex. Identification: process by which children incorporate their parents" values into their developing superegos. Defense mechanisms: repression, regression: when faced with anxiety, retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated. Defense mechanisms: reaction formation, projection: disguising one"s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. Defense mechanisms: rationalization: offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one"s actions, displacement: Neo-freudian and psychodynamic theorists: more emphasis on conscious, less emphasis on sex and aggression, collective unconscious: Assessing unconscious processes: projective test, tat, rorschach.
