Assumptions Flashcards
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ASSUMPTION 1: CHILDHOOD
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- shape adult personality
- fixated libido on psychosexual stages = frustration/overindulgence = effect personality
- oral / anal (retentive/expulsive) / phallic (Oedipus complex) / latency / genital
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ASSUMPTION 2: UNCONSCIOUS
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- iceberg
- conscious = logical / unconscious = pleasure seek + indirectly accessed e.g. dreams
- ego defense mechanisms = ego protection e.g. projection and repression
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ASSUMPTION 3: TRIPARTITE
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- id = unconscious pleasure principle, born with
- ego = conscious reality principle, 2yo
- superego = sense of right and wrong, 4yo
- id and superego = conflict, ego balances out
