PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Clarice Starling, Latency Stage, Castration
17 Dec 2020
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Transforms biological needs to psychological tension or wishes. Sole purpose is to gain pleasure and avoid unpleasure from increased tension. Little to no contact with the outside world. No distinction between external sensory reality and internal memory. When id feels tension - it searches the for images that give pleasure. Investment of energy creates a bond between needs and object - cathexis. Engages in predicate thinking - treats objects as the same if they have some similar characteristics. Everything it does is powered by the libido. To assist id in releasing sexual energy and obtaining sexual gratification. Concern with causes and effects of the physical world. Secondary process - ego"s attempt to make id impulses workable in real world. Finding an object in the outside world that is the same as an internal id image - identification. Ego cathexis between libidinal energy and need satisfying objects. Mediator between internal demands of id and its cathexis.
