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.