PSYC 464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Psychoanalysis, Intellectualization
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Foundation from which the ego and superego develop later in adulthood. Psychic determinism everything that happens in a person"s mind has a specific cause that can be identified. Ego = rational; mediates between id and superego; predominantly conscious. Superego = morals, conscience (can be rigid and controlling); conscious and unconscious. Genital this stage is not passed through, but attained. *can get stuck or regress in these stages fixation fixed at a particular psychosexual phase of development regression reversion to an earlier stage due to stress or deprivation parapraxes/freudian slips. Denial i probably drink too much, but i am not an alcoholic . Regression i remember nothing about last wednesday night . Reaction formation when i graduate, i will run for congress so i can lobby for higher taxes for the rich. Projection he"s weird, she"s weird, those people over there they"re weird. Rationalization i know i probably shouldn"t party all the time, but everyone my age is doing it .