01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 18 Months, Penis Envy, Erogenous Zone

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: Professor Lyra Stein

Document Summary

Anna o. : patient of joseph breuer, freud"s mentor. Psychodynamic: personality is a set of processes that are always in motion. Defense is a key aspect of human functioning. The human experience is filled with aggression, sexuality, and death. Conscious: part of the mind that holds what we"re awake of. Unconscious: part of the mind that is not accessible to awareness. Id (latin for it): inherited, instinctive, primitive aspects of personality. Pleasure principle: all needs should be satisfied immediately. Primary process: forming unconscious mental image of object or behavior that would satisfy need. Secondary process: matching unconscious image of tension- reducing object to real object (self-control) Reality testing: mentally testing plans to satisfy needs. Executive role in personality: mediates between id"s desires and constraints of external world. Introjection: incorporating the values of the parents and society. Two subsystems: ego ideal: rules for good behavior; standards of excellence, conscience: rules about what behaviors parents disapprove of.