PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Carl Jung, Penis Envy, Oral Stage
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The psychodynamic perspective: the structure of personality, three independent, interacting, and often conflicting systems. Superego: the innermost core of the personality, present at birth, exists totally within the unconscious mind, operates according to the pleasure principle. Source of all psychic energy: ego, has direct contact with reality, develops second, after id, exists primarily at the conscious level, operates according to the reality principle. Last to develop: moral arm of personality, traditional values and ideals of family and society, blind quest for moral perfection. Strives to control the impulses of the id. Id"s pleasure-seeking tendencies are focused on specific pleasure-sensitive areas of the body: erogenous zones, personality formed by age 6 through these crucial experiences. Fixation: a state of arrested psychosexual development. Instincts are focused on a particular stage: arises from too much or too little stimulation of erogenous zones, psychosexual stages, oral stage. Infancy (0-18 months: erotogenic zone - mouth. Love for the mother and hostility toward the father.
