PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Freudian Slip, Unconscious Mind, Sigmund Freud

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Personality development: the psychodynamic view lecture 11. Trained as a physiologist & expert in observaion which marked his work thereater. Fascinated by ailments that seemed to have no physiological cause: why people behaved they way that they did. Came to believe that all human behavior is moivated by insinctual desires that provide psychic energy. These drives could be unconscious as well as conscious. The manner in which our internal energies are released determines our personaliies. The pleasure principle: desire to obtain immediate graiicaion in whatever form it may take. The id is also linked to libido , the primary source of insinctual moivaion for all psychic forces. Charged with the task of making you the sort of person that will it in well with society or just the person you would like to be. Ego-ideal: the internalized noion of what society values in a person what it means to be good , liked or appreciated .