PS271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Freudian Slip, Intellectualization, Bsc Young Boys
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The division of personality into the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. The conscious contains the thoughts you are currently aware of. The preconscious is the retrievable information such as what did you eat for breakfast, who was your third grade teacher? . Divides personality into the id, the ego, and the superego. If the desired object is not available, the id will imagine what it wants: the id is buried entirely in the unconscious and therefore outside of our awareness. The superego represents society"s-and, in particular the parents"- values and standards: the superego places more restrictions on what we can and cannot do, brings guilt and conscience. Freud maintained that human behaviour is motivated by strong internal forced he called. Freud identified two major categories of instincts: the life or sexual instinct (libido, the death or aggressive instinct (thanatos, sexually motivated behaviours not only include those with obvious erotic content.
