PSYC 1103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11.1 & 11.2: Freudian Slip, Neurosis, Reality Principle
3 Mar 2017
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Personality: long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways. Freud and the psychodynamic perspective: levels of consciousness. Unconscious: mental activity of which we are unaware and are unable to access. Slips of the tongue are actually sexual or aggressive urges, accidently slipping out of unconscious: personality develops from a conflict of two urges: biological aggressive and pleasure seeking drive vs our internal, socialized control over these drives. Id: contains our most primitive drives and urges. Superego: develops as a child when we learn social rules for right and wrong. Acts as moral compass that tells us how we should behave. Job is to balance the demands of the id and superego. Imbalances in this system can lead to neurosis (tendency to experience negative emotions)< anxiety disorders, unhealthy behaviors: defense mechanisms. Feelings of anxiety result from ego"s inability to mediate conflict between id and superego.
