Psychoanalytic Lectures Flashcards
Behavior is not necessarily what it seems but is based on unconscious principles
Psychoanalytic
He was a medical doctor and his disciple was neurology
Sigmund Freud
A disorder in which people would lose the functioning of a body part
Hysteria
The belief that is emotionally based
Freud
The patients had emotional problems and the emotional problem was “converted” into a physically disabling condition. Since their symptom was a dsyfunctional body part. Who would they come to?
Neurologist
He had a biological background and was trying to understand these emotional/psychological problems.
Freud
What was the Victorian era noted for?
Their extreme attitudes of immortal for a husband and wife to hold hands in public or to show any public display of affection.
Who lived in the Victorian era?
Sigmund Freud
An example of the unusual or unnatural ideas of the Victorian era?
An example would be that it would be immortal to cover every part of their body, except their face and hands, even in the hot summer.
Who saw a lot of people in his office that had sexual problems because of these unnatural social rules under which they were trying to live?
Sigmund Freud
Who beloved that everything was biological and started to focus on the idea that the basis of such problems come from human sexuality?
Sigmund Freud
An area of the mind in which we are aware of our thoughts and our memories
Freud
An example of the mind would be?
The mind is the body of the sea. The conscious part is at the surface. The unconscious part is below the surface that is sealed off.
What did writers before Freud refer to in literature and poetry but Freud made it to focus on what controls our behavior?
Unconscious mind
He thought we had a negative viewpoint of human instinctual nature. He thought that our instincts originated from early humans and are survival orientated. He thought we are out for ourselves, uncaring of others, pleasure seeking, self centered, animalistic, and preserve.
Freud
