PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thermodynamics, Libido, Psychoanalysis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard Barlow Day

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Sigmund freud: most influential, oldest personality psychologist, all theories based on his, you ha(cid:448)e to understand freud to (cid:271)e an edu(cid:272)ated person in the (cid:449)est, u don"t ha(cid:448)e to agree (cid:449)ith him but you have to understand him. If you train to be a psychoanalyst would take 5 years. Free association: borrowed ideas from other ppl, problems are unconscious, psychology arose in germany. Why do people do what they do: hedonism, belief that we do things because they are pleasurable, two instincts that guide this.