Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory

Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory

1. Provinces of the mind

   • Id: pleasure principle; feels neurotic anxiety
   • Ego: reality principle; feels realistic anxiety
     • Ego + Anxiety = Defense mechanism
       • Repression: primitive
       • Reaction-formation
       • Displacement
       • Fixation
       • Regression
       • Projection
       • Introjection
       • Sublimation: sophisticated
   • Superego: moralistic/ idealistic princple; feels moral anxiety
     • Conscience
     • Ego ideal

2. Levels of consciousness

   • Conscious contents from 1) perceptual conscious system, 2) from the unconscious
   • Unconscious contents come from 1) repression, 2) phylogenetic endowment
     • Preconscious
     • Unconscious proper

3. Drive: internal stimulus that motivates us to act

   • Eros (sex), libido (sex drive)
     • Aim: Pleasure; Source: Entire body; Impetus: Active/ passive (inhibited); Object: Anything
   • Thanatos (aggression)
     • Aim: Destruction, self-destruction

4. Stages of Psychosexual development

   • Infantile (4-5 years)
     • Oral
       • receptive/ sadistic
     • Anal
       • Anal triad: orderliness, stinginess, obstinacy
       • retentive/ expulsive
     • Phallic
       • Male Oedipus complex
         • 1) Oedipus complex; 2) Castration anxiety, 3) Identification w/ dad; 4) Stronger superego
       • Female Oedipus complex
         • 1) Penis envy; 2) Oedipus complex, 3) Gradual realization, 4) identification w/ mom, 5) Weaker superego
   • Latency stage (6-7 years)
   • Genital (puberty)
   • Maturity
     • Balance among id, ego, superego

5. Techniques and applications

   • Initial: Suggestion of parental seduction; eventually became passive
   • Uncover repression
   • Free association
   • Dream analysis: wish fulfillments
     • Manifest content
     • Latent content
     • Formation of dreams
       • Condensation
       • Displacement
       • Inhibition/ Reversal or Affect
   • Transference
   • Resistance

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