S1 - Assumptions

• Influence of childhood


  • Childhood shapes adult personality
  • 5 Psychosexual stages each representing fixation of libido
  • Issue within stages = FIXATION

  Frustation - stage not resolved

  Overindulgence - Too comfortable

  • Oral stage: needy/clingy
  • Anal stage: Controlling
• 2 - Unconscious mind


  • Mind undersurface (preconscious / unconscious)
  • Iceberg: conscious (reality principle), unconsciou (pleasure)
  • Unconscious inflicts behaviour, unresolved conflicts (which comes in dreams)
• Unconscious mind PART 2


  • Ego Defense Mechanism in unconscious

  Displacement - Projecting anger

  Denial

  Repression - block trauma

  Regression - immature
• Tripartite personality


  • adult personality structured in 3 parts

  ID - “devil”, pleasure, child, instant gratification

  Ego - Reality, control, adult, protect from ID

  Superego - moral conscience, develop in anal stages, result of opedius complex