Personality
★ An individual’s typical characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviours
★ Persists over time and across situations
Psychoanalysis (unconscious motivations) (Freud)
★ Belief that disorders were due to psychological problems that stemmed from the conflicts
of expected gender roles/sexual suppression (victorian era) → concept of unconscious
a. Structure of Mind (compared to a iceberg → mostly hidden beneath conscious)
Conscious Decision made, thinking done, and ability to be verbalized → aware!
Preconscious Memory that can be accessed and be retrieved back into conscious
Unconscious ★ Not directly accessible to awareness (unless by a psychoanalyst)
(75%-80%) ★ Contains all the unacceptable ideas that have been repressed
★ Influences our actions & our conscious (e.g stuttering, beliefs)
b. Personality Structure
★ Conflict between impulse (id) & constraint (superego) and efforts to resolve it (ego)
★ ID
○ Immediate gratification for survival → impulsive & aggressive
○ Pleasure principle and exists in unconscious
★ Superego (Develops ~4/5 years old)
○ Morality principle for idealization & is mainly in unconscious
★ Ego (Mediates between id and superego)
○ Reality principle to bring long term pleasure and is mainly in
conscious and preconscious
c. Personality Development
★ Through (psychosexual) stages due to fulfilling sexual drive & erogenous zones
○ not achieved = fixation of pleasure-seeking energy & struggle to adapt as adult
★ Oral Stage (0-18 mo)
○ Pleasure in mouth, tongue, lips (breastfeeding and sucking bottles)
○ Fixation: Smoking, overeating. Overly Dependent, aggressive & pessimistic etc
★ Anal Stage (18-36 mo)
○ Controlling bowel and bladder demands (toilet training)
○ Fixation: obsession with cleanliness & perfection, or can be messy
★ Phallic (3-6 years)
○ Coping with sexual desire of opposite sex parent → jealous & hatred of “rival”
parent → fear of punishment → identifies w/ rival parent & represses feelings
■ Oedipus complex for sons and electra complex for daughters
○ Fixation: Sexual deviances or weak sexual identity
★ Latency (6-puberty): Repression of sexual urges and mostly interact with same sex
★ Genital (puberty onwards): Maturation of sexual interests and mentally healthy
★ An individual’s typical characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, & behaviours
★ Persists over time and across situations
Psychoanalysis (unconscious motivations) (Freud)
★ Belief that disorders were due to psychological problems that stemmed from the conflicts
of expected gender roles/sexual suppression (victorian era) → concept of unconscious
a. Structure of Mind (compared to a iceberg → mostly hidden beneath conscious)
Conscious Decision made, thinking done, and ability to be verbalized → aware!
Preconscious Memory that can be accessed and be retrieved back into conscious
Unconscious ★ Not directly accessible to awareness (unless by a psychoanalyst)
(75%-80%) ★ Contains all the unacceptable ideas that have been repressed
★ Influences our actions & our conscious (e.g stuttering, beliefs)
b. Personality Structure
★ Conflict between impulse (id) & constraint (superego) and efforts to resolve it (ego)
★ ID
○ Immediate gratification for survival → impulsive & aggressive
○ Pleasure principle and exists in unconscious
★ Superego (Develops ~4/5 years old)
○ Morality principle for idealization & is mainly in unconscious
★ Ego (Mediates between id and superego)
○ Reality principle to bring long term pleasure and is mainly in
conscious and preconscious
c. Personality Development
★ Through (psychosexual) stages due to fulfilling sexual drive & erogenous zones
○ not achieved = fixation of pleasure-seeking energy & struggle to adapt as adult
★ Oral Stage (0-18 mo)
○ Pleasure in mouth, tongue, lips (breastfeeding and sucking bottles)
○ Fixation: Smoking, overeating. Overly Dependent, aggressive & pessimistic etc
★ Anal Stage (18-36 mo)
○ Controlling bowel and bladder demands (toilet training)
○ Fixation: obsession with cleanliness & perfection, or can be messy
★ Phallic (3-6 years)
○ Coping with sexual desire of opposite sex parent → jealous & hatred of “rival”
parent → fear of punishment → identifies w/ rival parent & represses feelings
■ Oedipus complex for sons and electra complex for daughters
○ Fixation: Sexual deviances or weak sexual identity
★ Latency (6-puberty): Repression of sexual urges and mostly interact with same sex
★ Genital (puberty onwards): Maturation of sexual interests and mentally healthy
