Personality 210 Notes (Part 8) Continuing the Discussion of Drives

Physiological apoptosis

describes the gene- like cell death to combat cancer and seems to be a part of human development.

Erogenous zones

(mouth, anus, genitals) are biophysiological sites of tension and pleasure experience.

little energy

Very strong fixations lead to a person being so unconsciously preoccupied that they have for anything else.

Life drive

_ (or sex drives), also known as "Eros, "describe the need for survival, reproduction, and pleasure.

stages of psychosexual development

The correlates to body zones that are the primary sites of "sexual "energy discharge.

Life Eros

and Death /Thanatos produces all kinds of drives and work together and against each other.

Death drives

, also known as "Thanatos," describes how, "The goal of life is death, "Freud (1920).

Fixation

_ can occur if a conflict does not get resolved well by too much libidinal energy is invested.

sadism

Libidinal and Aggressive energies are expressed separately but side by side, also known as __.

libido

“Sexual energy,” or __, is the energy of a sexual drive or erotic desire.