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Class 2:

Freud

Discussion

 Do you think Freud was good for the field overall or not?

 Do you think psychoanalysis was “scientific”?

 Do you think Freud made discoveries about human

nature? If so, what are they?

 How are you influenced by Freud in your thinking?

What You “Need to Know”

 The design and rationale for psychoanalytic treatment

 Be able to discuss major criticisms of Freud and, at the same time, have a sense as to why Freud has received so much attention and changed human culture

 Be able to articulate my take on Freud and what I view to be his Fundamental Observation

 Some basic points about Freud‟s character structure (how did he see himself, how did he deal with conflict)

 The definitions in the back of the Ryckman Chapt

Freud

Classic Drive Ego (^) RelationsObject Self Intersubjective

Neo Freudians

Major Figures Adler, Jung, Horney, Erikson

(Bowlby)

Modern Dynamic Thinkers Nancy McWilliams, Paul Wachtel, Leigh McCullough Valliant, Diana Fosha, Hanna Levenson

Anna Freud Heinz Hartman Fairburn, Kernberg

Kohut

Attach -ment Theory

There has been a strong and consistent shift ever since Freud from psychosexual motives to psychosocial motives, like attachment, power, love and freedom.

Stolorow

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWLwYyrMRE

(Jordan Peterson on Freud)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLiKMUiyTI

(Jordan Peterson on Jung)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtxytpdO3JM

(Female Psychoanalysts)

Interpretation of dreams

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWMEnkyL_qA

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1CJCAvQsjQ

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJUjZpUYbE

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L1lCyK5ek

Freud’s Theory:

Concepts and Principles

Only few people in human history have generated work so creative and provocative that it shapes the course of human

values, thought and behavior…Sigmund Freud belongs in this

elite category because he compelled us to acknowledge that we

are often driven to act impulsively and irrationally by

unconscious conflicts of a sexual or aggressive nature.

Freud bared the baseness of the human soul for everyone to

see, and some people have never forgiven him.

Freud’s Theory:

Concepts and Principles

 The role of conscious, preconscious, and

unconscious forces in personality

 Instincts: The Driving Forces

 Sex and Aggression

 Life v. Death

 Individual v. Society

Freud’s Theory:

The Structural Model

 The Id- (It) Rooted in biology of individual, two motive sets, first sex and aggression, then life and death. Operates on the pleasure principle and instant gratification.

 The Ego – (I) Mediates the relationship between the

impulses of the id and the demands of reality. Operates on the reality principle.

 The Superego (Over me) Meta or observing perspective on

the self. Internalized social standards. Conscience and ego ideal.

Repression Unknowingly placing an unpleasant memory or thought in unconscious (primary defense mechanism)

Not remembering child abuse

Regression Reverting back to immature behavior

Adult temper tantrums

Displacement Redirecting unacceptable feelings to a safer substitute target

Taking your anger toward your boyfriend out on your parents

Defense Mechanism Description Example

Freud’s Main Defense Mechanisms

Freud’s Main Defense Mechanisms

Sublimation Replacing socially unacceptable impulses with more effective ones

Channeling obsessive, controlling impulses into entrepreneurial success

Reaction Formation

Acting exactly the opposite of unacceptable impulses

A boy who teases and is mean to a girl he actually likes

Projection Casting one’s unacceptable feelings & thoughts to others

Accusing your boyfriend of cheating on you because you have felt like cheating on him

Rationalization Creating false excuses (^) Justifying cheating on an exam by saying that everyone else cheats

Freud’s Theory:

Personality Development

 Oedipus Complex

 Character Types

 Oral-Dependent  Anal-Obsessive

Freud’s Theory:

Assessment Techniques

 Free Association – The “fundamental rule”

 Dream Analysis

 Transference

Scientific Legacy of

Sigmund Freud

Central to contemporary psychodynamic theory

 Unconscious cognition, motivation, affect

 Motivational Conflicts

 Origins of personality in childhood

 Internal working models

 Developmental trajectories

Demorest: Psychology’s Grand

Theorists

 As prime representatives of what historically

have been the three dominant paradigms in

psychology, Freud, Skinner, and Rogers were all

obvious choices.