PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: A Dangerous Method, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ego Ideal
18 Dec 2015
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Highschool top go his class, university of vienna. When began to recall how a symptom began, the symptom began to disappear, started using hypnosis. Went to paris, john marten charcot, get tips. Publishes ethology of hysteria, says su ering from bad memories, childhood memories of sexual abuse. Abandoned the hypothesis, said they were fantasies instead. Why do we want the things we want. We do what we do because we want to experience pleasure. Agression, thanatos(death), return to state no need, no wants. Libido , source of energy, power behaviours guided by the two instincts. Argues we can see this transformation of instinct to behaviour through the 3 psychic structures. Huner and thrist, help us require what we need. Doesn"t see anything, its blind, doesn"t hear anything its deaf. Only has memory images, does not the world directly. Has no sense of cause and e ect, doesn"t know how world works. Guided by pleasure principle, we want it now.
