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personality
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A person's characteristics patterns of behaving, thinking and feeling.
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psychoanalysis
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Freud's term for his theory of personality and his therapy for treating psychological disorders
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conscious
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The thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment.
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preconscious
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The experiences, perceptions, feelings, and memories that a person is not consciously aware of at the moment but that may be easily brought to consciousness
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unconscious
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For Freud, the primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories as well as instincts, wishes, and desires that have never been conscious.
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Id
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The unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle; source of the libido.
The physic energy that fuels the entire personality; yet the id can only wish, image, fantasize, and demand |
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ego
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In Freud's theory, the logical, rational. largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle.
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superego
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The moral system of the personality, which consists of the conscience and the ego ideal.
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