Psychology 1000 Lecture 9: Psych Lecture Notes 9

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Read: 532-538, 600-609 defense mechanisms tapping the unconscious. Superego is beginning to control ego by giving rewards for compliance. Note: diicult posiion for ego id and superego are oten in conlict. Ego cannot handle that guilt trip need to ind something that will saisfy them both. Id and superego are infanile formed when child was young. Superego is irraional blind do"s & don"ts) Need to ind a way to give id exactly what it wants if ego obeys superego. Id may not be saisied if ego follows id. Iceberg analogy everything underwater: unconscious mind huge porion that is id everything above: conscious mind. Ego & superego (but more unconscious than conscious) has conscious & unconscious porion. Unconscious conlict interacion of id, ego, and superego results in constant struggle anxiety never a ime when you have down ime, can stop thinking every moment of your life is pushed by the struggle of id, ego, superego.