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Personality: Freudian Principles

Personality: Freudian Principles . What do we know about Freud? HW: Read pages:575-580 by Wed. What exactly is our unconscious mind? Psychoanalysis= seeking to expose unconscious tensions. Freud’s Structure and Development of Personality. Personality= blend of conscience and pleasure

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Personality: Freudian Principles

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  1. Personality: Freudian Principles

  2. What do we know about Freud?HW: Read pages:575-580 by Wed • What exactly is our unconscious mind? • Psychoanalysis= seeking to expose unconscious tensions.

  3. Freud’s Structure and Development of Personality • Personality= blend of conscience and pleasure • ID- operates on pleasure principle. Seeks instant gratification regardless of consequences • Superego- voice of the conscience that forces the ego to consider not only the real but societies ideal. • Ego-balancing the wants and needs of the id and super ego.

  4. How does our Personality Structure Develop • - Psychosexual stages: the Id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on different areas of the body. fixation= becoming overly or under gratified in a certain stage effects your personality as an adult

  5. Psychosexual Stages 5 Stages 1) Oral Stage- gratify ones self by putting things in mouth. 2) Anal Stage- during toilet training. Gratification by holding and letting go of waste 3)Phallic Stage (3-5)- Electra and Oedipus complex. Sexual Feelings for opposite sex parent. After a while, we try to be like our 4)Latency (6-11)- absence of pleasure seeking principles. 5)Genital Stage= adolescence till rest of life. Reappearance of gratification focused on genitals. Same Sex Parents? Single Parent Homes?

  6. Think, Pair, an Share • 1) Evaluate the Situation on your own. Are the actions of the main characters an example of the id, ego, or super ego. Explain. • 2) Share your view with a partner. • 3) Share with the class • http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/02/27/am.willis.graduating.cnn?iref=videosearch • http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/12/04/pn.cheerleader.trouble.cnn?iref=videosearch

  7. Defense Mechanisms • Ego protects from anxiety • conflict between the super ego and id can cause us to have anxiety and make us feel frustration. • Defense Mechanisms=unconscious tactics used to deflect anxiety or guilt caused by superego, id and ego • *explanations for unacceptable actions. We unconsciously

  8. Group Skits • 1) Goto Your assigned group. • 2) Define your term • 3) Create a skit (can be improv) that shows the meaning of your definition. • 4) Write the definition on the board in your own words , and explain to the class what it means • 1)repression • 2)regression3 • 3) Reaction Formation • 4) projection • 5) Rationalization • 6) Displacement • 7) Sublimination

  9. Rationalization • -Making up acceptable excuses for behaviors that cause us to feel anxious

  10. Repression • Memories that are cause anxiety are pushed in the back of the mind and forgotten. They slowly come out in some situations

  11. regression • When faced with anxiety one retreats to more infantile solutions

  12. Projection • Feels or Anxiety you experience are projected onto other people. • Ex: Jealous bf does not want to admit it. He claims that the GF is the jealous one.

  13. Reaction Formation • Defending against acceptable impulses by acting opposite to them

  14. Displacement • -cannot take out frustration on the source so you take it out on someone else.

  15. Sublimination • Redirecting a forbidden desire into socially acceptable desire. • EX: You are angry at your friend’s arrogant attitude. You take out that anger in soccer practice by playing harder.

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