The Unconscious Flashcards
Freud and The Unconscious
We were accustomed to think that every latent (dormant) idea was so, because it is weak, and that it grew conscious as soon as it became strong. (First)
We now have gained the conviction that there are some latent ideas which do not penetrate into consciousness, however strong they have become. (second)
Therefore we may call the latent ideas of the first type preconscious, while we reserve the term unconscious (proper) for the latter type which we came to study in the neurosis.
The Unconscious- the essence of psychoanalysis
A seething psychic mass of dangerous emotions.
It causes all our problems, the part of the self that our better self would rather forget.
Revealed when we do a Freudian slip.
A truth we weren’t aware of and that we wish hadn’t come out.
It just isn’t nice!
Though some medicos believed it to be an unachievable myth, a chimera, an illusion.
Conscious and Unconscious
Unconscious - the unconscious mind consists of ideas and drives that have been subject to the mechanism of repression: anxiety-producing impulses in childhood are barred from consciousness, but do not cease to exist, and exert a constant pressure in the direction of consciousness. However, the content of the unconscious is only knowable to consciousness through its representation in a disguised or distorted form, by way of dreams and neurotic symptoms, as well as in slips of the tongue and jokes. The psychoanalyst seeks to interpret these conscious manifestations in order to understand the nature of the repressed.
Subconscious - the part of your mind that notices and remembers information when you are not actively trying to do so, and influences your behaviour even though you do not realize it:
The memory was buried deep within my subconscious.
Synchronicity
Jung - Designates the meaningful coincidence of equivalence: a) of a psychic (supernatural) and a physical state or event which have no causal relationship to one another. Such synchronistic phenomena occur, for instance, when an inwardly perceived event (dream, vision, premonition, etc.) is seen to have a correspondence in external reality: the inner image of premonition has “come true “. (b) of similar or identical thoughts, dreams etc. occurring at the same time at different places.
Psyche
In psychoanalysis and other forms of depth psychology, the psyche refers to the forces in an individual that influence thought, behavior and personality.
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, believed that the psyche—he used the word Seele (‘soul’, but also ‘psyche’) throughout his writings—was composed of three components:[13]
The id, which represents the instinctual drives of an individual and remains largely unconscious. It does not respect the rules of society.
The super-ego, which represents a person’s conscience and their internalization of societal norms and morality.
The ego, which is conscious and serves to integrate the drives of the id with the prohibitions of the super-ego. Freud believed this conflict to be at the heart of neurosis.
