PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rorschach Test, Inferiority Complex, Hypochondriasis
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Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting: each dwarf has a distinct personality. Psychodynamic perspective: freud"s clinical experience led him to develop the first comprehensive theory of personality which included, the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and defense mechanisms, model of mind. Mostly hidden and below the surface lies the unconscious mind. Conscious mind is the tip of iceberg. Personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses (id) and social restraints (superego) Ego (conscious and subconscious executive mediator: psychosexual stages. Freud divided development of personality through five psychosexual stages. Oral (0-18 months) pleasure centers on the mouth- sucking, biting, chewing. Anal (18-36 months) pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control. Phallic (3-6 years) pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings. Genital (puberty on) maturation of sexual interests: defense mechanisms.
