by Kelly Alford
“the Father of Psychoanalysis”
- Proposed that the thought of free will is a delusion, we act according to repressed motives and not from consciousness. Iceburg theory: 90% is underneath the surface, not even aware of.
- Theory of the ego, id, and superego: each operate in a different level of consciousness
- Id- most primitive, motivated purely by fulfilling pleasure, demanding satisfaction now.
- Ego- balances between id and super-ego, more reality based.
- Superego- acts as the moral code, ultimate right and wrong.
- Dream Analysis: Freud believed to be an insight into the subconscious, the “royal road”.
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
- Dream symbolism: the recurring themes in all people’s dreams, mostly pertaining to sexual orientation of some kind.
- Psychosexual Development: What Freud was known for and most criticized for.
- Stages of development including the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital stages.
- Odeipus Complex/ Electra Complex: the jealousy between and child and his like-sex parent and competition in gaining attention from the opposite sex parent.
- Unconscious phallus desires (penis)- males fear of castration or loss of masculinity and females’ penis envy.
- Hypnosis
- Repression: the unconscious mind not being able to remember certain events. Mind’s defense mechanism, not allowing you to remember because your mind couldn’t handle it.
- Free Association: asking a patient to say whatever first comes to their mind.
- Transference: a patient interacting with their counselor as if they were someone else from their past or important in their life. Allows patient to reenact and resolve past conflicts.
- More defense mechanisms include: denial, isolation, displacement, projection, regression, rationalization, and sublimination.
Works Cited
Boeree, C.G. “Sigmund Freud”. 1997.
www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/freud
Library of Congress. “The Individual: Therapy and Theory”. 2 April 2007.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud02
Stevenson, David B. “Freud’s Division of the Mind”. 1998.
www.victorianweb.org/science/frued/division.html
Wikipedia. “Sigmund Freud”. 8 March 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud