PSYCH 7A Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Castration Anxiety, Latency Stage, Anal Stage
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Conscious: holds what you"re currently aware of. Preconscious represents ordinary memory currently outside awareness, but can easily be brought into awareness. Unconscious: most important part, according to freud, not directly accessible to awareness storehouse for unacceptable urges, feelings, wishes, and ideas the urges, etc, exert a continuing influence on later actions and conscious experience. According to freud: personality arises from the conflict between our aggressive, pleasure-seeking impulses, and the internal and social restraints against them. 3 components of personality: id, ego, superego. The id: only component present at birth contains basic drives to survive, reproduce, and act aggressively, operates completely in the unconscious, pleasure principle - all needs should be satisfied immediately. Oral stage: mouth is a source of tension reduction (e. g. eating) and pleasurable sensations (e. g. tasting, licking, sucking, basic conflict is weaning. Anal stage: major event is toilet training child must learn that there is an appropriate time and place for everything.
