PSY 337 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 4: Reality Principle, Collective Unconscious, Therapeutic Relationship
20 Sep 2016
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Freud"s psychoanalytic system is a model of personality development and an approach to psychotherapy. The freudian view of human nature is basically deterministic. Libido: sexual energy then later became life instincts. Death instincts: unconscious wish to die or live. In freud"s view, both sexual and aggressive drives are powerful determinants of why people act as they do. Consciousness is a thin line of the total part of your mind. You have to push your client but you have to be careful. Wait until you get their total story (let them talk) until you interpret. Ruled by the pleasure principle, which is aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure, the id is illogical, amoral, and driven to satisfy instinctual needs. The id never matures, remaining the spoiled brat of personality. It does not think but only wishes or acts. The id is largely unconscious: the ego: reason. The executive that governs, controls, and regulates the personality.
