PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intellectualization, Cathexis, Introjection

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3102
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Unconscious method to protect self-image from anxiety when we feel attacked. In defensive environments: we lack trust, act protectively against judgment, manipulation, control, criticism, and rejection. Recognizing our own areas of defensiveness: helps to improve ip interactions, facilitates being open, hones social skills, and is constructive. Understanding others defensiveness helps to: increase empathy. Normal behaviour: as long as they are not overused. Three major models: dynamic model, motivational forces that are direct and innate behaviour. (labido, structural model, basic components of personality: id, superego, ego, topographic model, geographic type conceptualization: conscious, pre-conscious, sub-conscious. Libido: psychic energy that comes from a biological energy. (innate) Conservation of energy principle applies: you cannot destroy or create energy but you can transform it: mind operates on a closed energy principle. The drives to self-presevation, love, etc: death instinct (thanatos) Repetition compulsion: repeatedly doing things that are bad for you. Biological in nature. (these are the minds energies. )