Psychology 1100E Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Unconscious Mind, Reality Principle, Neuroticism
16 Oct 2014
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Freud"s psychoanalytic theory: divided personality into three separate but interacting structures: Electra complex (castration anxiety): the male children experience (penis envy): the female version of the oedipus erotic feelings toward his mother, desires to posses her sexuality, and vies his father as a rival. Freud believed that the phallic stage is a major milestone in the development of gender identity. Go against these when you go towards what is socially expectable: latency stage. Conflict, anxiety and defence: anxiety serves as a danger signal and motivates the ego to deal with the problem at hand. It is the result of the ego confronting impulses that threaten to get out of control or are faced with dangers from the environment: two types of anxiety are: Reality anxiety external (ex: train coming towards you) Repression: an active defensive process through which anxiety arousing impulses or memories are pushed into the unconscious mind, ex) a person who was sexually abused in childhood develops amnesia.
