PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jargon, Intellectualization, Projective Identification

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

It has enormous explanatory power: when you read freud"s corpus what emerges are a number of key themes/tenets of this particular approach. Infantile independence & sophisticated brains: 1 - human beings are a species which have a relatively long period. Internal conflict & repression: particular activities usually singled out as socially unacceptance the child"s. Sexual impuses or any aggressive impulses: aggressive behavior not understood, punished sets up a whole cycle of conflict, for the child, the process of socialization through cognition & learning leads to the. Defense mechanisms & compromise formations: another very important contribution from psychoanalysis, they come to constitute our personality & affect our behavior, these protect us against the anxiety associated with unconscious material that. Presses for release: protecting yourself from the anxiety in various ways, denial trying to convince others that you"re not aggressive, repression, projective identification, dreams, sublimation, psycho-somatic symptoms, parapraxes, jokes and humor.