Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis
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Two Key Instincts

• Eating
• Domestication of Plants and Animals
• Guns, Germs, and Steel Diamond
• Reproduction
• Basic animal behavior
• Survival of the fittest
• Based on evolutionary past

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Sex Instincts, Eros (ADIDAS)
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Key Ideas

• Topographical Unconscious/Conscious
• Behavior/motivation not what it seems
• Seduction Theory
• Structural
• Id Pleasure Principle
• Ego Reality Principle
• Superego Morality

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Development

• Oral
• Anal
• Phallic
• Latency
• Genital

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Defense Mechanism

• Denial/Repression
• Projection/Displacement
• Splitting
• Rationalization/Intellectualization
• Reaction Formation
• Acting Out
• Sublimation
• Repetition Compulsion

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Counseling Process

• Transference
• Counter Transference
• Working Through
• Free Association
• Dream Analysis (wish fulfillment)
• Interpretation

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Object Relations

• Focus on relationship between very young child
  and primary object (usually mother)
• Key is the development of accurate and
  comprehensive self and object representations.
• Object Relations Graphic