PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Erogenous Zone, Phallic Stage, Castration Anxiety
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All behaviour is determined: even simplest behaviour can be traced to complicated psychological (unconscious) factors, parapraxis (freudian slips) even a slip of the tongue is more meaningful than we think of it to be. Psychic energy is the source of human motivation: energy is fixed, moves from one object to another, plays important role in personality (e. g. , fixation) Fixation: the failure to progress from an earlier stage of psychosexual development, caused by, frustration/threat to child"s ego (i. e. , flooded with anxiety, excessive indulgence by parent, examples discussed in psychosexual stages. Topographic model: unconscious cannot be pulled into conscious at any time, preconscious where we store information that can be easily retrieved, conscious. Structural model: id = pleasure principle, ego = reality principle, superego = internalized societal values, example: surviving being stranded on desert island to get back to civilization to have a meaningful life) Most of what happens with us is unconscious.
