Unconscious: mental contents and processes are kept from conscious awareness through the
force of censorship or regression. It is characterized by primary process thinking, which aimed at
facilitating wish fulfillments and instinctual discharge. It is also characterized by extreme mobility
of drive cathexis.
Super ego: Establishes and maintain an individuals moral conscience. Freud viewed this as the
heir of Oedipus Complex. It dictates what a person shouldnt do. The function of super ego is to
control ids impulses, especially those which is society forbids. The super ego is consisting of 2
systems: conscience, can punish the ego through causing feelings of guilt and ideal self, an
imaginary picture of how you ought to be, such as how to treat others and how to behave as a
member of society.
NARCISSTIC DEFENSE:
IMMATURE DEFENSE:
ACTING-OUT
Introjection/introjective identification
internalizing the qualities of an object.
Passive-aggressive behavior expressing
aggression toward others indirectly. REGRESSION
INTROJECTIO
N
ISOLATION
INTELLECTUALIZATION RATIONALIZATION
INHIBITION DISSOCIATION
REACTION
EXTERNALIZATION
FORMATION
DISPLACEMENT REPRESSION
Pain-Pleasure Principle
Characterize the tendency of people to seek pleasure and avoid
pain.
- In psychoanalytic theory, id is the part of the unconscious
dedicated to pleasure and base drives.
- The influence of the ego and super ego can mitigate the
influence of the id, but this principle still remains as an
important part of the underlying personality.
- The main goal of this principle is to satisfy the primitive
urges. Although sometimes, you need to have pain in
order to have a long-term pleasure.
- Example, the woman in the picture is on a diet and she is
struggling whether to the cake or not. If she chooses not to eat the cake (pain), shell have
a long-term pleasure by being lean if thats her goal.
Reality Principle
Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage *
Latency Stage
Genital Stage
Note:
Phallic Stage, in this stage arises Oedipus complex wherein the boy wanted to possess his own mother. The child
develops unconscious sexual desires for their mother. Similar to this is Electra Complex, is coined by Carl Jung and
is mainly to characterize girls who have sexual desires for their father and resentment to their mother.