PSY 505 Lecture 2: Psy505 - Lecture 2 - Simund Freud
8 Oct 2014
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First comprehensive personality theory (developed over 47 years ago) Purpose: the theory describes how personality develops through childhood. This theory is based on two things: his own thoughts, women that were seeing him. Assumptions about human beings and science itself: the assumption of psychosocial conflict. Freud says that we are always in the state of conflict. Wanting to do something vs. knowing not to do it. We are all neurosis ranging on a continuum. It is how we deal with these conflicts that determines our behaviour: the assumption of biological and psychic determinism. Freud did not think that we have freewill. Biological and psychic determines our behaviour: the mechanistic assumption. Physical principles of: his theory is not actually not scientific, but that was his goal because that was what people. To make this theory more credible, freud borrowed from the physics theory. believed in. Tragic view of life -- we are constantly struggling.
