Your Self-Concept Changes Throughout Your Lifetime

question 23

True/False

Your self-concept changes throughout your lifetime.

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Definitions:

Death Instinct

In psychoanalytic theory, the drive towards death and self-destruction, opposing the life instincts.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of personality development that emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts, originated by Sigmund Freud.

Childhood Trauma

Distressing experiences that occur during childhood, which can have long-lasting emotional and psychological effects.

Repression

In psychoanalytic theory, a mechanism of defense by means of which thoughts, impulses, or memories that give rise to anxiety are pushed out of consciousness.