Lecture 8 Flashcards
Psychic Energy:
Source of energy in everyone that fuels motivation
Instincts (provide energy)
- Libido (life)
- Thanatos (death)
Psychoanalytic Structure of Personality (Id):
- Primitive and dominant in infancy
- Drives all urges
- Pleasure principle
- Primary process thinking
- Wish fulfillment
Psychoanalytic Structure of Personality (Ego):
- Constrains “id” within reality
- Develops around 2-3 years of age
- Reality principle
- Secondary process thinking
Psychoanalytic Structure of Personality (Super Ego):
- Internalizes values, morals (around age 5)
- The conscience
- Not necessarily reality-based
- People can set their own standards
Dynamics In Personality (Anxiety):
- Objective Anxiety - real threat
- Neurotic Anxiety - id-ego conflict
- Moral Anxiety - id/ego and super ego conflict
The ego functions to minimize anxiety and cope with threats vis defense mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms (Repression):
Preventing unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and urges from reaching conscious awareness
Defense Mechanisms (Denial):
Insisting that things are not as they seem by refusing to see facts
Defense Mechanisms Cont’d (Displacement):
A threatening/unacceptable impulse is directed from its source to non-threatening target
Defense Mechanisms Cont’d (Rationalization):
Generating acceptable reasons for outcomes that otherwise appear socially unacceptable
Defense Mechanisms Cont’d (Reaction Formation):
To reduce an urge, one may show an opposite reaction
Defense Mechanisms Cont’d (Projection):
Project own unacceptable desires, urges, and/or qualities onto others (related to false consensus effect)
Defense Mechanisms Cont’d (Sublimation):
Channeling unacceptable instincts into a socially desirable activity
Psychosexual Stages Of Development:
Fixation occurs when a conflict is unresolved at a stage:
1. oral
2. anal
3. phallic
4. latency
5. genital
