PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erogenous Zone, Psy, Sigurd
12 Apr 2017
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Reasons for anxiety: three types of anxiety: An objective threat from the outside to the person. When the ego feels that is going to be overwhelmed by the id. When an internalized value is or is about to be violated, similar to shame or guilt. One of the ego"s jobs is to deal with anxiety. To deal with objective anxiety, the ego must deal with the physical environment. To deal with neurotic and moral anxiety, the ego must use one or more processes called ego defense mechanism. Ideas, memories, desires which are in the unconscious can enter consciousness only in disguised form so that they do not cause anxiety. These ideas, memories, and desires are said to be repressed. Replacing an object or goal that produces anxiety with one that does not. The expression of sexual urges indirectly through socially acceptable ways such as poetry, art, religion, or other ways. Freud considered sublimation to be the basis of.
