PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Oedipus Complex, Classical Conditioning, Reality Principle
1 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Psych Notes 18
November 1, 2016
Personality
I. Freudian (Psychoanalytic) Personality Theory
A. Impulses for pleasure and aggression ultimately motivate all human behavior
1. EX—> Advertising
2. “The Past Stalks the present”
B. Structure personality comprises three regions
1. ID: behavioral energy derived directly from impulses (pleasure principle)
2. EGO: conscious understanding and management of reality (reality principle)
a) EX. Terrible Two’s
3. SUPEREGO: conscience, morality
C. Direct expression of sexual and aggressive impulses is modified by reality over successive
stages
1. Oral: initial pleasures come from sucking, biting; infant’s “personality” thus organized
around oral gratification
2. Anal: toilet-training initiates lifelong demands regarding neatness/messiness
3. Phallic: physical attraction to opposite sex, competitiveness toward same sex
a) EX Oedipal Complex
4. Latency: sex, aggression are less in evidence
5. Genital: coincides with puberty. lasts through adulthood, plagued by whatever
psychosexual conflict were not resolved in childhood
D. From the psychoanalytic perspective, little of major significance to your personality
development takes place after childhood
E. Conflicts produce anxiety
1. ID-EGO conflict: neurotic anxiety
2. ID-SUPEREGO conflict: moral anxiety
F. Defense Mechanisms
1. Repression: drive conflict and anxiety into the unconscious
a) EX. Childhood sexual abuse
2. Denial: deny that an anxiety-ridden problem exists
a) EX. Children, Alcoholics
3. Rationalization: Make excuses, blame others
a) EX. Sour grapes
4. Regression: immaturity, childishness
5. Projection: perceive your own anxiety-ridden flaw in someone else
6. Displacement: redirect anxiety-ridden impulse to substitute target
7. Sublimation: socially acceptable outlet for instinctual energy
a) EX. Sports, Humor
II. Humanistic Personality Theories
A. Emphasize freedom, responsibility, dignity, and inherent goodness of human nature
B. Human behavior is a continuous process of growth and maturation directed towards
understanding and expressing what is truly meaningful to one’s self
III.Biological Factors in Personality
A. Evolutionary Personality Theory: Personality differences reflect variations in behavioral
tendencies necessary for survival and reproduction
1. EX. Aggressiveness, Risk-Taking, Interpersonal Communication, Relationship Stability
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Psych notes 18: freudian (psychoanalytic) personality theory. Impulses for pleasure and aggression ultimately motivate all human behavior: ex > advertising, the past stalks the present , structure personality comprises three regions. Id: behavioral energy derived directly from impulses (pleasure principle) 1: ego: conscious understanding and management of reality (reality principle, ex. Id-superego con ict: moral anxiety: defense mechanisms, repression: drive con ict and anxiety into the unconscious, ex. Childhood sexual abuse: denial: deny that an anxiety-ridden problem exists, ex. Children, alcoholics: rationalization: make excuses, blame others, ex. Sour grapes: regression: immaturity, childishness, projection: perceive your own anxiety-ridden aw in someone else, displacement: redirect anxiety-ridden impulse to substitute target, sublimation: socially acceptable outlet for instinctual energy, ex. Humanistic personality theories: emphasize freedom, responsibility, dignity, and inherent goodness of human nature, human behavior is a continuous process of growth and maturation directed towards understanding and expressing what is truly meaningful to one"s self.
