PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Defence Mechanisms, Canoe.Com, Oedipus Complex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Lecture notes 3 sept 29, oct 1, 6. A theory created by sigmund freud (1856-1939) Psychoanalytic theory is a method of investigating and treating personality disorders and is used in psychotherapy. Included in this theory is the idea that things that happen to people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as adults. A lot of freud"s theory is sex-based. Psychodynamic approach is based off of the psychoanalytic theory by. This theory doesn"t believe in all of freud"s beliefs, but take a lot of it into its theory. In freud"s theory instincts are: a) life b) death. We"re governed by unconscious conflict: a type of life instinct is libido" (sexual instinct, while we have life instincts, we also have death instincts (conflict, anger, etc. ) Structure of personality; id, ego, superego: the id contains the instincts (aggressive, sexual, etc. ) and this is the only structure present at birth. According to freud it is irrational and amoral.