PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Das Ich, Freudian Slip, Unconscious Mind
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According to attachment theory we form emotional bonds with our caregivers, which become mental representations, called internal working models. Our early relationships with parent and caregivers become transferred onto future potential partners, especially if they resemble these significant people in terms of personality characteristics and typical behaviours (transference) Freud believed that psychic energy fueled the functions of the mind including, thinking, imagining, and remembering. According to the law of conservation in physics, freud reasoned that energy within the mind-body system must also be conserved; neither created not deserved. He hypothesized that body energy and psychic energy could be turned into each other thru an instinct, a. Mental representation of a physical or bodily need . Freud"s original german word for what we call instincts (an excitation originating from within the body) was trieb , but the english word impulse really comes closer to capturing the concept freud was trying to describe. Concerned with survival of the individual and the species.
