PSY 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Explicit Knowledge, Preconscious, Psy
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A grand theory of personality & its development. Development of an intervention based on his theory (reduce human suffering) Topographic (his first model) = the elements of the ind. Pre-conscious: not currently conscious, but able to be brought into awareness. Primarily determinant of personality & sexual + aggressive impulses. Challenge: reconcile sexual urges and attractions with realities in social life. Each stage associated with its own mode of sexual gratification. Frustration or over gratification results in fixation. Freud"s structural model = the mind is made of separate parts that function independently and can conflict with each other (psychodynamics) Id: irrational and emotional, mostly unconscious sexual & aggressive impulses. Ego: rational, some is conscious, some is unconscious. Unconscious conflicts make people anxious or unhappy. The ego acts as the mediator between the id and the. Freud"s contributions: unconscious processes, self-deception, childhood origins, sexual and aggressiveness, mental representations, the talking cure, etc. More explicit attention to social contexts (like culture)
