PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Libido
24 Dec 2015
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Personality: individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Explanations of the basis for psychological differences among people. Explanations of personality differences are concerned with prior events and (sometimes supposedly value-free) anticipated events that affect personality. Freud: the first comprehensive theory of personality; proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Freud psychoanalysis: three layers: id (unconscious), ego (preconscious), superego (conscious) Psychoanalysis- both an approach to therapy and a theory of personality. Id: operates according to the pleasure principle; present from birth and primitive (basic needs and wants); unconscious; two competing instincts: life (sexual) libido, and death (aggressive) tantatos. Ego: operates according to the reality principle (you can"t always get what you want); arises in first three years of life; mediates between id and superego; rational part of mind. Superego: moral conscience; develops around age 5; stores and enforces rules; 2 subsystems: ego ideal- parents" approval/values, conscience- parents" disapproval.
