SW 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cengage Learning, Postmodern Feminism, Liberal Feminism
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Chapter 3: psychological development in infancy and childhood. Freud"s conception of the mind was two dimensional: first dimension: conscious, preconscious, and unconscious, repression: a process in which desires, memories, and thoughts are excluded from consciousness by sending material into the unconscious under the repressed barrier. Second dimension: id, superego, and ego: id: the primitive psychic force hidden in the unconscious. Involves all basic instincts that people need to survive: hunger, thirst, sex, and self-preservation. Governed by the pleasure principle: ego: the rational component of the mind. Begins to develop, through experience, shortly after birth. Operates according to the reality principle; considers rationality: superego: conscience. Consists of traditional values and mores of society that are interpreted to a child by the parents. Determines whether something is right or wrong. Fixated: a person"s personality development was largely, though not completely, halted at a particular stage: an individual would either have to resolve these crises and/or use a defense mechanism.
