Reflective Journal 1
Introduction to Psychology
APSS111
Reflective journal (1)
Name: Zhang Jing Yi
ID: 12133456d
Among all the subjects and disciplines throughout the history of human beings, I believe psychology could be recognized as one that holds together the three attributes of complex, fun and amazingly close relations with life. The use of the word “amazing” stems from the initial impression I had on psychology before I set out the journey to know about it and I barely thought those theories could be so easily applicable to reality. After two months’ learning, I found that a considerable quantity of phenomena in daily life, which people usually turn a blind eye to, actually hides psychological theories behind for explanation. That is why people also call it the study of human’s mind.
Sigmund Freud, generally accepted as the funding father of psychology, is the psychologist that interests me most by far, and his theory about personality also greatly draws my attention. In his theory, the personality consists of three systems: the id, the ego and the superego, which respectively represents primitive demands, referee between instinct needs and society standards, and the morality. Those three systems aim at seeking for balance through a process of affecting one another with their own purposes. When these systems are not in harmony with one another, which always happens, the defense mechanisms start working in the unconscious level, meaning that people who took the action may probably not be aware it is due to the defense mechanism.
The five defenses primarily identified are repression, projection, displacement, regression, and denial, and I would like to talk a little bit about the first three with some practical examples applied.
And old film called Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock describes a story about a murder, in which there is a man who pretended himself to be another person without knowing it because his unconsciousness repressed his
APSS111
Reflective journal (1)
Name: Zhang Jing Yi
ID: 12133456d
Among all the subjects and disciplines throughout the history of human beings, I believe psychology could be recognized as one that holds together the three attributes of complex, fun and amazingly close relations with life. The use of the word “amazing” stems from the initial impression I had on psychology before I set out the journey to know about it and I barely thought those theories could be so easily applicable to reality. After two months’ learning, I found that a considerable quantity of phenomena in daily life, which people usually turn a blind eye to, actually hides psychological theories behind for explanation. That is why people also call it the study of human’s mind.
Sigmund Freud, generally accepted as the funding father of psychology, is the psychologist that interests me most by far, and his theory about personality also greatly draws my attention. In his theory, the personality consists of three systems: the id, the ego and the superego, which respectively represents primitive demands, referee between instinct needs and society standards, and the morality. Those three systems aim at seeking for balance through a process of affecting one another with their own purposes. When these systems are not in harmony with one another, which always happens, the defense mechanisms start working in the unconscious level, meaning that people who took the action may probably not be aware it is due to the defense mechanism.
The five defenses primarily identified are repression, projection, displacement, regression, and denial, and I would like to talk a little bit about the first three with some practical examples applied.
And old film called Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock describes a story about a murder, in which there is a man who pretended himself to be another person without knowing it because his unconsciousness repressed his