PSYC 473T Lecture 15: Freud, regulation and motivation, and Zentner article
10 Mar 2017
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Freud: psychosexual development, free association, dream analysis, hysteria, defense mechanisms, mind-body problem, solutions. Instincts (impulses: tension or excitation in body that must be satisfied, how we deal with impulses forms our personality, mind requires psychic energy to function. Life instincts: eros: connected with survival, psychic energy: libido. Freud emphasized sex: today focus on relationships and self-esteem, death instinct: thanatos, aggression, unconscious. Instincts provide energy and direction for personality and demand to be gratified: expressing instincts can be seen as socially unacceptable, expression becomes unconscious, free association, dream analysis, manifest content: what was in the dream. Latent content: underlying, true meaning: parapraxes, mistakes in speaking and acting caused by hidden desires. Freudian slip: mistake in speech, humor, a socially acceptable means of expressing aggression and sexual desires. Seemingly innocent actions that actually symbolize a socially acceptable way: current ways to examine unconscious thoughts, word association test, complexes. Freud"s view of personality: structural and topographical model, no evidence for structural model.
