Internal Motivations/Driv

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Learning Goals• Today I will learn Durkheim’s analogy for work as

a system of organs working on their own, but also working for each other like the organs in our body.

• Today I will learn about Freud’s stages of psychosexual development.

• Today I will learn about the Conscious and Unconscious motivators within ourselves.

• Today I will learn about Defense mechanisms and how they relate to instincts.

Survey: What does this text

mean? (5)

In groups of 3-5 people

1. Take 1 minute to decide for yourself, what is the meaning of this text?

2. Take 3-5 mins Discuss in your group, what does this text conversation mean? Explain your reasoning to the group.

3. Choose a representative speaker to explain to the entire class what your group discussed/decided on.

In 5 minutes discuss in your group who you would hire for a position in your company as a car salesman? A banker? A babysitter? A bouncer? A teacher?

• Make sure you explain your decision to each other regarding who you chose for each position.

• Include in your discussion your feelings about each person for each position.

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5-10 mins

Durkheim’s Organ Specialization &

Anomie

• Did you notice your feelings affected your decision making?

• Did you notice our Cultural norms of equality to work and equality to access of work was just “thrown out”?

Sometimes, in some circumstances, our cultural norms are no longer observed and breakdown for various reasons. To Durkheim this breakdown state of norms is what he calls the Anomie. It is when the feeling of normlessness is commonly felt.

For Durkheim, when all is well, every member in the workplace / society work on their own, but ultimately contribute for the whole community just like an organ specializes in a single task which when combined with the other organs promotes Organic specialization

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)Psychologist,

Medical Doctor

In the Minds On, did you notice that not all us agreed on explaining the cell phone text conversation?

Sigmund Freud believed that we are motivated by our choices, our environment like cultural norms, but also the motivation from unconscious parts of ourselves.

1. id2. Ego 3. Super-ego

• The Id is completely inaccessible to conscious. It is motivated by sex and pleasure seeking. The reptilian brain that is primitive and is moved towards satisfying physical needs.

Sigmund Freud • Ego is a rational and

conscientious part of ourselves that negotiate the needs of both the Super-ego and the id. It is motivated by balance of emotions and reason.

• Super –ego the part of ourselves that is affected by all levels of consciousness to unconsciousness. It is motivated by praise and social responsibilities. It is influenced by the opinions of others.

When the Ego is too Weak

• Who determines your choices? • If it is either the super-ego or the id, we would

often add on a defense mechanism to compensate for the weakness of the Ego to find a balanced and reasonable negotiation between the Id and the super-ego.

• In your groups. Learn and understand the two defense mechanism assigned to you. Make sure you all understand what it is so that you can present it to the class with many different examples. (15 minutes)

What motivates our Defense Mechanisms?• We have a very basic instinct of fight or flight which

affects us physically but more importantly mindset and attitude.

• When defending ourselves through mechanisms from what could be perceived as harmful, this directly relates to the instinct of fight or flight.

In summary, the bourgeoisie, the social structures, and environment are not the only source of influence and motivators for human beings. They have far more powerful instincts and unconscious memories, experiences, traumas, and desires that move people. These forces can be so powerful that when left unchecked, it can cause fixations and problems for the person.