PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Baby Talk, Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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Dynamic: the exchange and transformation of energy within the personality, freud: source of motivation was psychic energy. Each person has a set amount of psychic energy that is invested in behaviours, people and ideas. Cathexis: investment of psychic energy: the more energy devoted to one cathexis, the less psychic energy left for other cathexes and mental activities. E. g. a boy who is constantly thinking of a will find it hard to focus on other things (school work: pleasure principle: reducing psychic tension to produce a pleasurable experience. Deterministic: all behaviour is determined, all behaviour has meaning, freudia(cid:374) slip: errors (cid:373)ade i(cid:374) spee(cid:272)h, (cid:449)riti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d readi(cid:374)g sho(cid:449) the perso(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)(cid:374)er thoughts or real intents. Organizational/structural: personality is divided into 3 structures; id, ego, and super ego. Developmental: childhood development is important for developing their adult personality. Levels of consciousness: conscious: what we are aware of at any given time.