PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Psychoanalytical Association, Sigmund Freud, Anna O.
2 Feb 2018
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The principles of natural science could explain not only the behaviour of physical objects, but human thought and behaviour as well. There is a limited amount of energy. Energy can be blocked but does not (cid:1688)just go away(cid:1689); instead gets expressed in some other manner, along a path of least resistance. The mind functions to achieve a state of tranquility or quiet. Page 1 of 10: the mind as an energy system, the case of anna o. Experienced bizarre symptoms whose biological causes could not be determined. Difficulty conversing in her native language, german. The mind has more than one part. A region of ideas of which people are consciously aware. A more mysterious, hidden region of ideas that lie outside of awareness: (cid:1688)unconscious . Functional systems in the mind: id, ego. Levels of consciousness and the concept of the unconscious. Conscious level includes thoughts of which we are aware.
