Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud 18561939

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Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (18561939)
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Context

• Psychology versus psychoanalysis
• Not study of consciousness
• Sciencenot laboratory
• Clinical practice
• Abnormal versus normal
• Darwin
• Internal conflict
• Developmental
• Freuds impact
• Irrational forces
• Conflict
• Internal
• Individual desires against culture
• Great prose

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Historical RootsHypnosis

• Hypnosis
• Therapeutic technique
• Unconscious suggestion
• Franz Anton Mesmer (17341815)
• Animal magentism
• Marquis De Puységur (17511825)
• Trance and suggestion
• French psychology and psychopathology
• Liebault and Bernheimthe Nancy school and
  suggestion
• Jean Martin Charcot (18251893) hypnosis and
  hysteria
• Pierre Janet (18591947) hysteria, narrowed
  consciousness, and dissociated ideas

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Background

• Unconscious
• Passive storehouse or dynamic
• Different levels, consciousness, preconscious,
  unconscious
• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900)
• Unconscious motives
• Transcend civilization
• Sex
• Fixed amount of libido
• Freud
• Power of sex
• Childhood sexuality
• Distrust of the body
• Seduction hypothesis controversy
• Zeitgeist
• Marginal position
• 19th century Vienna

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Sigmund Freud (18561939)

• Favored child
• Ambitious
• Medicine and research
• Ernst Brücke s lab
• Charcot 18851886
• Josef Breuer and Anna O
• Studies in Hysteria (1895)
• Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895)

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Dream Interpretation

• Interpretationof Dreams (1900)
• Reading
• Manifest versus latent content
• Techniquefree association
• Dream work
• Sensory images
• Condensation
• Displacement
• Wish fulfillments

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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1905
• Erogenous zones
• Childhood sexuality
• Sublimation
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
• Death instinct
• The Ego and the Id (1923)
• Unconscious not uniform
• The Future of an Illusion (1927)
• Religion
• Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
• Necessary unhappiness

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Theory

• Drives/instincts
• Sexual/erotic
• Libido
• Tension reduction
• Objects
• Id
• Oldest
• Basic instincts
• Pleasure principle
• Primary process

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• Ego
• Executive
• Reality principle
• Secondary process
• Anxiety
• Defense mechanisms
• Repression
• Reaction formation
• Projection
• Rationalization
• Displacement
• Sublimation

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Development and the Superego

• Psychosexual stages
• Erogenous zones
• Oral 0 1.5
• Fixations
• Anal 1.5 3
• Phallic 3 6
• Oedipus complex
• Identification with parent
• Superego
• Ego ideal
• Conscience
• Latency 6 puberty
• Genital adult
• Sexual urges directed outwards

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Influence

• Products
• Psychoanalytic therapy/ dynamic therapy
• Projective tests
• Changed view of human beings
• Popular acceptance of unconscious
• importance of early childhood
• Weakness
• Subjective methodology
• Difficulty of testing
• Often plain wrong