PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Penis Envy, Castration Anxiety, Oedipus Complex

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Personality refers to enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation, and behavior that are expressed in different circumstances. The aim of personality research is to. Construct general theories of personality. Assess individual differences in personality. Based on his observations of clients. Freud invoked a role of unconscious processes in the control of behavior o. Topographical model: argued for 3 levels of consciousness o o. Conflict occurs between the different aspects of consciousness. Human behavior is motivated by two drives. Libido refers to pleasure- seeking and sensuality as well as desire for intercourse. Libido follows a developmental course during childhood. Fixed progression of change from stage to stage. Notion of fixation at a particular libidinal stage. Defense mechanisms are unconscious mental processes that protect the conscious person from anxiety. Repression: anxiety- evoking thoughts are kept unconscious. Denial: person refuses to recognize reality. Projection: person attributes their own unacceptable impulses to others. Reaction formation: person converts an unacceptable impulse into the opposite impulse.