PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 46: Karen Horney, Electra Complex, Unconscious Mind

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories: view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis: personality disorders, thoughts & actions linked to unconscious motives & tensions. Unconscious: information processing of which we are unaware. (neurological disorders have psychological causes: lost of feeling in hand - caused by fear of touching one"s genitals) Without our awareness, troublesome feelings we block from our consciousness are powerfully in uencing us, work we do, our beliefs, daily habits, troubling symptoms. Free association: exploring the unconscious, where patient says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing. Id(impulse demands - devil): unconscious energy that strives to satisfy sexual & aggressive drives. operates on the pleasure principle, immediate grati cation. (example: baby crying, or drug abuser) Ego (compromising between impulse demands): largely conscious part of personality, operates on the reality principle,satisfying id"s desires without bringing pain.