The Unconscious, the
Desires, and the Defenses
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The unconscious is influenced by events that
happen during one’s childhood
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Relationships with parents
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Drives of desire and pleasure
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5 Stages of Psychosexual Development: Oral,
Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital
Id, Ego, and Superego
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Id
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energy for basic drives, primitive and
instinctive component of the personality
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Ego
o
decision making component of the personality,
realistic ways to satisfy the id’s demands
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Superego
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Controls the id’s impulses (sex and aggression)
Oedipus Complex
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Children’s need for their parents
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Boys and girls wish to possess their mothers
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As they age they believe that they cannot have
all of their mother’s attention because of their fathers àrage against the father
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Different for boys and girls
o
Boys identify with fathers eventually in hopes
of getting a woman like their mothers
o
Girls shift their sexual desire from the mother
to the father
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