Psy -Personality
...that persists over time and across situations.
1. Psychodynamic Theories p 328 see behavior as the product of psychological forces that interact within the individual often outside conscious awareness. (Frued)
- Frued traced it to sexual and aggressive urges; others, like Karen Horney, saw it as rooted in the individuals struggle to deal with dependency.
i. ALL psychodynamic theorists share the sense that unconscious processes primarily determine personality and can best be understood within the context of life-span development.
A. Sigmund Frued- best known and most influential of the psychodynamic theorists.
a. Unconscious all ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware.
b. Psychoanalysis - theory of personality Freud developed, as well as the form of therapy invented.
c. How personality is structured:
Id - the collection of unconscious urges and desires that continually seek expression. (basic drive, present at birth, instincts) Think of the id as the 'devil on your shoulder' and the superego as the 'angel of your shoulder.'
Pleasure principle the way in which the id seeks immediate gratification of an instinct.
ID tries to obtain immediate pleasure not pain.
Ego conscious/preconciously, mediates b/w environment demands (reality), conscience (superego), and instinctual needs (id) (makes deicison, everyday reality, realistic state of conscious)
Reality Principle the way in which the ego seeks to satisfy instinctual demands safely and effectively in the real world.
Superego social and parental standards the individual has internalized; the conscience and the ego ideal. (moral decisions chose b/w wrong and right) conscience and guilty
Ego Ideal...
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