Social Psychology 12/3/98
Spaces in the Mind -- the Conscious, Preconscious, & Unconscious.
Structures in the Mind -- The Id, Ego, &Superego.
Id-Ego-Superego Interactions -- Conflict and Compromise.
Slips, Dreams, & Symbolic Symptoms.
Freud's beliefs about personality development and psychosexual stages
Emotional Conflict -- Wishes/Desires vs. Guilt about Wishes/Desires (which were often sexual).
"Forgetting" of the Incident --Repression.
Creation of a "psychologically-related symptom" -- symbolic, meaningful.
Split the mind into three parts:
Conscious--part of the mind to which we have direct access--open to awareness.
Preconscious--part of the mind that is not in consciousness currently, but that can easily be brought to consciousness.
Unconscious--vast portion of the mind to which we have no direct access. Although we have no access, it does influence behavior.
Again broke the mind into three parts:
Id
Ego
Superego
Freud assumes that at our core we are motivated by the desire to gratify basic biological needs. Called this drive the libido.
The id motivates us toward immediate gratification.
The id is illogical. It operates:
on the pleasure principle
as a primary process, meaning that it ignores consequences and makes no firm distinction between reality and fantasy.
Resides in the unconscious.
Operates as an interface between the id and the world.
Constrained by the reality principle. This means:
The Ego is the great pragmatist
The Ego distinguishes between fantasy and reality (The id may be able to survive on fantasy, but the ego realizes the body can't.)
The Ego resides in conscious and preconscious levels.
The moral aspect of the self. Consists of:
the Conscience, which consists of information about what is bad and punishes such behavior
the Ego Ideal, which consists of information about what is good and rewards such behavior.
The superego is the opposite of the id in that it is moral and righteous where the id is immoral and sensual.
Resides at all three levels of consciousness.
Freudian Slips or "Parapraxes"
Dreams
Symbolic Symptoms
Personality is shaped during the first few years of life.
Personality is shaped by the resolution of a series of "psychosexual" conflicts.