PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Art Therapy, Karen Horney, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 393
• Professor: Jorgensen

Document Summary

Homeostasis and personality: process to maintain constancy of internal environment. Like other animals, we strive for homeostasis: personality driven by a need for homeostasis (cid:862)p(cid:396)essu(cid:396)e (cid:272)ooke(cid:396) o(cid:396) h(cid:455)d(cid:396)auli(cid:272) (cid:373)odel(cid:863): loss of homeostasis motivates ourselves to cause change to reinstate homeostasis. **prof. schmitty: like (cid:271)lo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g up a (cid:271)alloo(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:396)elease to satisfy homeostasis. Pressure cooker model: loss of homeostasis instinctual stimulation(pain) reinstating homeostasis (pleasure) Long time w/o water instinct is to get water so to reinstate homeostasis. Object: external object or mental representation associated with need gratification. Libido = sexual energy: linked to life sustaining activity. Driven to a pre-life state of no tension (which is to be dead) Aggression = major instinctual derivative against others/against self: aggression against self = suicide. No energy source linked to this instinct. Body supplies limited amount of libido to id, ego, superego: mind cannot exist dependent of the body. Conflict: psychic structures (id, ego, superego) compete for libido (limited amount of sexual energy.