Personality: Freud part 1

Personality: Freud part 1

1. personality

   • cross situational consistency in behaviors unique to individual

2. ID

   • sexual and aggressive drives
   • pleasure principle
     • immediate satisfaction; if builds up will eventually cause abnormal personality
   • represent desires and needs
   • gets frustrated b/c cannot be satisfied through images
   • unconscious
   • dominated personality
     • very aggressive/sexual, careless, impulsive, demanding, selfish

3. ego

   • conscious awareness
   • reality principle
     • no sense of right/wrong but understands consequences

4. super ego

   • conscience
   • morals, good/bad, right/wrong
   • very demand, and can punish ego with guilt
   • domated personality
     • pensive, prudent, reserved, perfectionistic

5. anxiety

   • results when ego can't meet needs of ID with constraints of super ego

6. defense mechanisms

   • employ when we feel anxious
   • repressions
     • ego banishes need/desire to unconscious; effective
     • can trace mental illnesses back to
   • projection
     • your beliefs are projected onto someone else
   • reaction formation
     • aware of exact opposite of desire
     • stochkholm syndrome
       • kidnapped begin to love their kidnappers
   • displacement
     • act on desire but not towards intended target
   • sublimation
     • acting out desire in socially acceptable way
     • ex: sports as both, surgeons as aggression

7. dreams

   • only way to understand unconscious
   • ego is dormant when we sleep
   • manifest content: things you remember
   • latent content: what dream symbolizes