PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Oedipus Complex, Sigmund Freud, Reality Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving: attempts to describe and explain how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is unique. Personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Psychodynamic theory attempts to explain personality, motivation, and psychological disorders by focusing on the influence of early childhood experiences, on unconscious motives and conflicts, and on the methods of people use to cope with their sexual and aggressive urges. Includes all of the diverse theories descended from the work of sigmund freud, which focus on the unconscious mental forces. o. Id is the primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle. Ego is the decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle. The id houses the raw biological urges (to eat, sleep, defecate, copulate, and so on) that energize human behaviour.