Title: Module 19: Freudian
1Module 19 Freudian Humanistic Theories(A-E)
2Freuds Life
- Born in Moravia ( now Czechoslovakia)
- He studied in Vienna
- He was severely disturbed at points in his life
and worked through this problems - Helped to stop discrimination and he feared
people with emotional disturbances -
3Freud believed that childhood almost totally
determine adult personality.
4The Power of the Unconscious
- The mind is like an iceberg
- 1. The tip is the conscious mind
- a. Everyday thoughts
- 2. The water line is the crossover zone or
preconscious mind. - a. Stores memories often needed
- 3. Submerged portion is the unconscious
mind. - a. Has harsh memories, fierce desires, secret
hates to powerful to be handled by the
conscious mind so it is repressed, yet
these hidden memories and emotions
influences almost everything we think,
do, and feel. - b. The Freudian slip is the unconscious,
mind creeping out.
5Here is a picture of an iceberg to help you
imagine it more D
6Life and Death Forces
- Eros is the life drive
- 1. Satisfaction of hunger, thirst, sex,
self-preservation - a. Libido- houses psychic energy to keep
the life drive in motion. - Thanatos is the death drive
- 1. Freud believes all people carry a
death wish, which leads to aggressive
and destructive behavior.
7Role of the Id, the Ego, and the Superego
8IDThe great savage infant
- It demands satisfaction of human needs NOW
- It wants pleasure and wants to avoid pain also
9EGO---Computer-like and in control
- Acts as a moderating force between ids demands
and the reality of the world around you. - a. Believes in the reality principle
- b. Tries to provide most pleasure with
the least pair or consequence
10SUPEREGO--- Your guiding conscience
- Absorbs the social values you learned from your
parents and other adults. - This ideal behavior has enforced with rewards,
punishments, and restriction in their childhood - The superego demands you practice perfect
morality---- major conflict with the ID
11Defensive Mechanism
- The ego uses the defense mechanism to convert
taboo feelings into acceptable behavior. - 1. Repression
- a. Burying painful and/or disturbing desires
and memories - b. They remain alive and influences
behavior unawares. - 2. Displacement
- a. Unable to focus your anger on the thing
that caused it. You strike out at other
less treating people or objects - 3. Sublimination
- a. Detour powerful, frustrating drives into
socially useful behavior
12Defense Mechanisms (cont)
- 4. Projection
- a. Ego can cope more easily with tension if
it originates in the outside world - 5. Regression
- a. When faced with frustration or stress
some use anxiety releasing behavior
that worked as a kid - 6. Reaction Formation
- a. unconscious converts a bitter feeling of
rage into its opposite to better deal
with the anger - 7. Rationalization
- a. Process of finding reason or excuses for
thoughts, feelings, or action that it
measures up to your expectations of
yourself. -
13Psychosexual Development
14STAGE 1 Oral Stage (1st year)
- Pleasures centers around the mouth stimulation
- Sucking, eating, drinking, and licking
- Babies without enough food equals possessive
greedy adults - Babies who is allowed to bite equals destructive
grown up - Many later behaviors are subs for pleasures of
oral stages ( example gum chewing and pipe
smoking) - Fixation occurs from unresolved conflicts at
this stage equals physical growth but emotional
dependency on behaviors that worked in this
crucial stage.
15STAGE 2 Anal Stage (2nd and 3rd year)
- Child finds pleasures in daily bowel movement
- Experience with need to regulate instinctive and
impulsive behavior - Harsh overly strict toilet training result in
retentive, stingy, stubborn adults and/or
rebellious, destructive, disorderly ones - To eliminate problems, potty-training should be
low pressure and natural
16STAGE 3 Phallic Stage (4th- 6th year)
- Pleasures center in genitals
- Engage in sex play at this age Oedipus Complex
unconscious sexual attraction for parent of
opposite sex - Feelings resolve themselves with growth
- Castration Complex boy feels father will punish
his oedipal complex by cutting off his penis - Penis envy girl feel lack of something important
males have - Torn by guilt and sex desires, kids repress
oedipal feelings and identify with same sex
parent - Phallic stage helps resolve oedipal conflict by
building in social moral values related to sex
roles
17STAGE 4 Latency Period (6th puberty
onset)STAGE 5 Genital Stage (puberty
adult)
- Stage 4
- Most sexual feelings are repressed
- Company of same sex is preferred and lots of
energy is put into school, sports, hobbies, and
play activities - Stage 5
- Teens begin to explore pleasures of genuine love
- Develop career interest, join peer groups, debate
desirability of marriage and kids of their own - Provide firm foundation for achieving productive,
satisfying personal relationships - If you dont work through stages people are
driven by unconscious driven by unconscious
forces they can only vaguely q.
18THE END D (finally huh lol)