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FREUD- The Psyche (Key Contributions (Thematic Apperception Test (a set of…
FREUD- The Psyche
Key Contributions
Free Association
- recall, recover and reintegrate unconscious material
- do so by - patient invited to speak (or not speak) as the moment takes them - analyst interprets the material
Seduction Theory
a necessary precondition of psychoneuroses is unconscious memories of sexual molestation during early childhood
eventually shifted from the idea that childhood sexual abuse was the beginning of all neuroses, to a stance that real or imagined abuse, when functioning as repressed memories, become pathogenic
Oedipus Complex
moving away from Seduction Theory, Freud argued the existence of autonomous juvenile sexuality
suggests that child has unconscious desires to have sexual relations with parents of the opposite sex
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Structure of the Psyche
- conscious
- precocious
- unconscious
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Life History
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Lived and worked in Vienna, Austria (from 1860) – received his degree from the University of Vienna
Entered private practice in 1886 – specialising in ‘nervous disorders’ – used hypnosis in his early clinical work
Later moved away from hypnosis and introduced psychoanalysis
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Died in September of 1939 from requested euthanasia
- Cancer had greatly eroded his quality of life and he was in severe pain
Life Drive/Libido
libido- the energy of life affirming impulses, is invested by a person in various activities, people, object and goals
- Libido not only about sexuality and sexual desires- it is about survival, propagation and similar life-producing drives
- If someone has a high Libido- means that someone always wants to have sex
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Death Drive
drive towards self-destruction, death and chaos
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associated with negative emotions- Eg: hate, anger
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The Super-Ego
bearer of moral codes, standards of contact and inhibitions
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Structure of the Psyche
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unconscious - cant be known directly (instincts, repressed material, impulses )
- things we cant' deal with/dont want to deal with - repress material (push it down)
The Couch
- Freud believed that this technique – asking a patient to lie down, without making eye contact, to say whatever readily came to mind- could provide new insights for the psychoanalyst
- The couch helped create an environment that was clinical yet intimate- allowing a patient to freely explore ideas that could build a picture for a psychoanalyst to work with
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