PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sigmund Freud, Freudian Slip, Introjection
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Freud: psychoanalysis: overview of freud"s psychoanalytic theory (1) Born in the czech republic in 1856, sigmund freud spent most of his life in vienna. Early in his professional career, freud believed that hysteria was a result of being seduced during childhood by a sexually mature person, often a parent or other relative. In 1897, however, freud abandoned his seduction theory and replaced it with his notion of the oedipus complex, a concept that remained the center of his psychoanalytic theory. Near the end of his life and to escape. Nazi rule, freud moved to london where he died in 1939. Freud saw mental functioning as operating on three levels unconscious, preconscious, and conscious: unconscious. The unconscious includes drives and instincts that are beyond awareness but that motivate most human behaviors. Freud believed that unconscious drives can become conscious only in disguised or distorted form, such as dream images, slips of the tongue, or neurotic symptoms.
