Psychodynamic Approach

the role of the unconscious
1. vast majority of the mind
2. innate biological drives and instincts
3. contains repressed memories
  1. the most threatening or disturbing memories are repressed
4. preconscious
  1. become aware of this through parapraxes or Freudian slips
structure of personality
1. ID
  1. primitive
  2. pleasure principle
  3. unconscious drives and instincts
  4. entirely selfish
  5. instant gratification
  6. inner child
2. SUPEREGO
  1. sense of right and wrong
  2. morality principle
  3. inner parent
  4. follows social conventions
  5. developed at end of phallic stage (5 years old)
  6. punishes the ego through guilt
3. EGO
  1. mediator of the two parts of the personality
  2. uses defence mechanisms
4. tripartite personality
defence mechnisms
1. repression
  1. forcing a distressing memory out of the mind
2. denial
  1. refusing to acknowledge an aspect of reality
3. displacement
  1. transferring feelings from a true source to a substitute
FREUD
1. psychosexual stages
  1. oral (0 - 1 years)
    1. focus of pleasure = mouth
    2. object of desire = mother's breast
    3. oral fixation - smoking, biting nails, sarcastic, critical
  2. anal (1 - 3 years)
    1. focus of pleasure = anus
      1. child gains pleasure from withholding or expelling feces
    2. anal retentive = perfectionist, obsessive
    3. anal expulsive = thoughtless, messy
  3. phallic (3 - 5 years)
    1. focus of pleasure = genital area
    2. oedipus/electra complex
    3. phallic personality - narcissistic, reckless, possibly homosexual
  4. latency
    1. earlier conflicts repressed
  5. genital
    1. sexual desires become conscious in puberty
    2. difficulty forming heterosexual relationships
2. conflict at each stage of development
  1. if not solved = fixation
the oedipus complex / little hans
1. boys fall in love with their mothers and hate their fathers
2. castration anxiety
3. repress feelings for mother and identify with father
4. case study
  1. phobia of horses was displacement, symbolic representation of castration anxiety
5. girls experience penis envy
  1. replaced by the desire to have a baby
evaluation
1. + explanatory power
2. - case study method
3. - untestable concepts
4. + practical application
5. - psychic determinsim

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