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Summary Psychology First year, Intro to Psych, Theories of Personality, Sigmund Freud, Personality development (The Psychoanalytic Approach), psychosexual stages, structure of personality (id, ego, superego), Life and death instinct, The conscious, preconscious,
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Psychology (PSYC1009A)
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University Of The Witwatersrand (wits)
This summary is for all psychology first year students, Intro to Psych and includes: Theories of Personality, Sigmund Freud, Personality development (The Psychoanalytic Approach), psychosexual stages, structure of personality (id, ego, superego), Life and death instinct, The conscious, preconsciou...
Theories of Personality
Monday, 06 March 2023 10:34
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Lecture Main topics:
○ What is personality
○ 8 main approaches to understanding personality
○ FREUD
Lecture notes:
Personality- the psychological qualities that contribute to an individuals enduring and distinctive patterns
of feelings, thinking and behaving
Psychoanalytic Approach to personality development
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• Structures of personality are largely unconscious
(people are unaware of why they behave the way they do)
• Strongly influenced by conflicts such as:
→ Instincts
→ unconscious motives
→ past experiences
→ social norms
FREUD'S VIEW
Life instinct and death instinct
Instincts- basic motivational drives that provide basis for personality. Mental representations of internal
stimuli that causes a person to take action.
Life Instincts death Instincts
'Eros' 'Thanatos'
Need for survival and Destructive force of human
development. (hunger) nature
Ensure the reproduction of Unconscious wish to die-
species (sexual desire) transformed into aggressive
Psychic energy manifested- drive (act out)
libido We all have the potential
to be destructive
The conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious levels
These are the 3 levels of personality according to Freud
Conscious- sensations and experiences that we are aware of at any
given moment of time
○ Limiting aspect of our personalities because it only includes a
small portion of:
→ Thoughts
→ Sensations
→ Memories
Preconscious- lies between conscious and unconscious. Includes
thoughts, memoires and perceptions that we may be able to recall by
bringing them into the state of consciousness
Unconscious- contains memories, emotions and instincts that are
threating to conscious they remain buried (e.g. sex or aggression)
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