Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Unconscious Mind, Extraversion And Introversion, Electra Complex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Ana Feher

Document Summary

Instincts strong innate forces that provided all the energy in the psychic system. Two fundamental categories of instincts: self-preservation instincts and sexual instincts (based off of darwin"s theory of natural selection) Libido = life instinct self preservation and sexual , thanatos = death instinct instinct of destruction and aggression. Each person has a limited amount of psychic energy therefore can be redirected into socially acceptable behaviours e. g. aggression in sport. Unconcisous motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do what we do. Psychic determinism: nothing happens by chance: though psychological problems were caused by unconscious memories or desires -> e. g. anna o and hysteria to dads death of tuberculosis she exhibited. Symptoms of tuberculosis cured her by talking about it the talking cure . Psychoanalytic personality theory describes how people cope with their sexual and aggressive instincts within the constraints of a civilized society.