Task 7 - Freud and Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Freuds research methods
- medical case studies
- introspection + interpretation of therapist
Method of free association
- encourage patients to let thoughts run free and report honestly on whatever came to their mind
- patient stays conscious
- before: pressure technique
Intrapsychic conflict
- conscious: wants to be cured
- unconscious: fear of treatment
Seduction theory
- all hysterics must have undergone sexual abuse as children
- > symptoms function as defense
- Freud realized its wrong but: sexuality must still play a role
Dream work: 3 processes
1) displacement
- manifest content symbolizes latent content (with image less distressing)
- Defensive function
2) condensation
- 2 or more latent thoughts condense onto a single manifest dream image
3) concrete representation
- manifest content represents latent content
- > concrete experienced sensations or hallucinations
Primary processes
- unconscious
- dreams and symptom formation
- children
Secondary processes
- conscious
- rational thought
- more mature
- regression to primary thoughts (can also be positive -> artists
Wish fulfillment hypothesis
- all dreams represent some element of the fulfillment of wishes
- often latent content: represents wishes
- manifest content: opposite of wish fulfillment
Freuds self analysis - his own development
- death of father -> depression
- his childhood dream
- > interpreted it as having 2 wishes:
- his fathers death
- mothers sexual attention
Oedipus complex
- infantile desire to possess opposite sexed parent for ones exclusive sexual pleasure
- get rid of same sex parent as major rival
Childhood sexuality
- much broader than normal adult kind
- generalized human sexual drive from birth
Stages of childhood sexuality
1) polymorphous perversity
- innate sexual pleasure from stimulation any body part
2) erogenous zone
3) oral zone
- early infancy
4) Anal zone
5) genital zone
Age 5
- conflict acute -> Oedipus complex
- child represses Oedipal wishes -> forces them into unconsciousness
Puberty
- latency stage
- positive feelings with same sex parents
- positive identification with that parent
Anal character
- parents strict in enforcement of toilet training
- orderly person
- parsimonious (geizig)
- obstinate (stur)