PSYCHOANALISIS
2nd stage: Metapsychology
1st stage = 1st topography
3rd stage = 2nd topography
1900 - 1914
Aparatus divided in 3 stages
Preconscious
Conscious
Subconscious
1915 - 1920
Location of ideas that had direct acces to consciouness
Psychological processes
The location of material susceptible of becoming conscious fairly easily
The location of whatever had been repressed from consciousness and was thus inaccessible to it
Descriptive and Dynamic
From 1920 (after metapsychology).
Divided the psyche into the three agencies:
Dynamic means that content is unconscious because it is primarily repressed so it gets to the unconscious forever. Content moves from one stage to the other one
Ego
SuperEgo
Descriptive means how the human psyche is divided (In this case in 3 stages that are explained above)
ID
Portion of the human personality which is experienced as the “self” or “I” and is in contact with the external world through perception.
The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
The impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires. PLEASURE
Point of views
The topographical point of view: the psyche operates at different levels of consciousness - unconscious, preconscious, and conscious
The dynamic point of view: the notion that there are psychological forces which may conflict with one another at work in the psyche
The economic point of view: the psyche contains charges of energy which are transferred from one element of the psyche to another
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Psychoanalysis definition
Practice that is refereshing all the time
A reaserch method that consists in evidencianting the unconscious significance of a subjects' acts and imaginary productions
Group of concepts that makes a theory itself
Psychotherapeutic method characterized by resistance, transference and desire
Economical aspects (Drive)
Borderline concept between psychich/somatic
Comes from the inside but they have an outside goal
4 components
Aim
Object
Source
Pressure
Principals
Reality principal
Pleasure principal
Concept that shifted from the 1st topogrpahy to metapsychology
Defense Mechanisms
Opposing force to the instinctual urges of the pleasure principle.
DENIAL: defense mechanism which involves a refusal to accept reality, thus blocking external events from awareness.
REACTION FORMATION: a person goes beyond denial and behaves in the opposite way to which he or she thinks or feels.
RATIONALIZATION: cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or an impulse less threatening. We do it often enough on a fairly conscious level when we provide ourselves with excuses.
IDENTIFICATION W/ AGRESSOR: involves the victim adopting the behavior of a person who is more powerful and hostile towards them.
REGRESSION: defense mechanism proposed whereby the ego reverts to an earlier stage of development usually in response to stressful situations.
DISPLACEMENT: redirection of an impulse (usually aggression) onto a powerless substitute target.
PROJECTION: psychological defense mechanism in which an individual attributes unwanted thoughts, feelings and motives onto another person.
REPRESSION: unconscious defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.
The pleasure principle guides the id to fulfill these basic needs to help ensure survival.
Investigation method of mental processes and/or neurotic disorders.
Tells us what to do
Tells us what we want to do
Different post-Freudian schools of psychoanalisis
English school
French school
Psychosexual stages
Phalic stage
Latent period
Anal stage
Genital stage
Oral stage
Melany Klain
Donald Winnicott
Anna Freud
Jacques Lacan
Beyond pleasure principal
Ethical point in Freud's theory
Kids represents over and over again to try and conncet something to a represenataion.
Text that shifts from metapsychology to the 2nd topography