PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Egocentrism, Narcissism
3 Nov 2016
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Psyco105, lecture 17, november 1, last class before midterm. Repression is an unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious. Ex: during the oedipus complex aggressive thoughts about the same sex parents are repressed. If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it. Projection involves individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feeling and motives to another person. Displacement is satisfying an impulse with a substitute object. Regression is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress. Sublimation is satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in a socially acceptable way. Psychosexual stages: distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual pleasures from speci c body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasures. The stages are oral, anal, phallic, and genital. Self-actualizing tendency: the human motive toward realizing our inner potential.
