PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Personality Development, Penis Envy, Narcissism
19 Jun 2017
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Drew western defines contemporary psychanalysis as being based on the following five postulates: 1. The unconscious still plays a large role in life, although it may not be ubiquitous influence that freud held it was. Behavior often reflects compromises in conflicts among mental processes such emotion, motivations and thoughts. Childhood plays an important part in personality development, particularly in terms of shaping adult relationship styles. Mental representations of the self relationships guide our interactions with others. Personality development involves not just regulating sexual and aggressive feelings but also moving feelings but also moving from an immature socially dependent way of relating to other to a mature, independent relationship styles. Repression and contemporary research on memory-elizabeth loftus argues that not all recovered memories are false memories. False memories- are fake repressed memories that have been created by therapist and then believed by the patient.
