PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genital Stage, Tachistoscope, Inorganic Chemistry
18 Sep 2016
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Sigmund freud (1856-1939): a view of the theorist. Enrolled in medical school at the university of vienna. Mechanism: the principles of natural science could explain not only the behaviour of physical objects but human thoughts and behaviour as well. Vitalism: claim that a non-physical spiritual force is responsible for life. Mind-body interventions, herbalism, meditation, chiropractic and massage therapy. Prevailing belief was that people are essentially good, but society corrupts them. In psychoanalysis, sexual and aggressive drives are an inborn part of human nature. Individuals function according to a pleasure principle, seek the pleasurable gratification of those drives. Society teaches the child that biologically naturally drives are socially unacceptable and maintains social norms and taboos that drive this lesson home. The mind gets mental energy from physical energy. The mind is a system that contains and directs instinctual drives opposite of a storage system. Life drives survival/preservation for life and seeks to create life (sex) energy created is known as libido.
