Psychodynamic:

• Role of unconscious:


  most of our mind is made of the unconscious- a vast storehouse of biological drives and instincts that has a significant influence on our behaviour and personality.

  contains disturbing memories which are repressed.

  They can be accessed through dreaming or the 'slip of the tounge' which is known as a parapraxes. For example calling a teacher mum instead of miss

  preconscious has memory's which are not currently in the conscious but can be accessed
• Structure of personality:

  ID: operates on the pleasure principle- get what it wants.

  • Seething mass of unconscious drives and insticts
  • present at birth called babies 'bundles of id's'
  • its entirely selfish and demands instant gratification of needs

  EGO: Reality principle, the mediator between the ID and Superego.

  • developed around the age of 2
  • role is to reduce conflict between the ID and Superego
  • does it by employing a number of defence mechanisms

  SUPEREGO:

  • forms at the end of phallic stage- 5 years old
  • based on morality principle
  • punishes the EGO for wrong doing through guilt
• Psychosexual stages:

  oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

  each stage apart from latency is marked with a differenct conflict which the child must resolve in order to move onto the next stage successfully.

  If it remains unresolved fixation occurs in which the child is stuck in that stage and will carry out certain behaviours of that stage through to adult life