PSY 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nocturnal Enuresis, Countertransference
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Elongated objects capable of causing harm: reptiles, knives, the number 3, represent male genitalia. Receptacles: houses, rooms, enclosed spaces, landscapes (female body) represent female genitalia. Freud, in disguise, accompanies elderly partially blind man in train station. Ha(cid:374)ds (cid:373)a(cid:374) a glass uri(cid:374)al; assu(cid:373)es he is (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:374)urse. Freud awakens with the urge to urinate. As a young child, freud witnesses his mother naked during a train ride. Later in his childhood, he dreams of mother in peaceful sleep as she is carried by bird- headed people and laid in bed. Goal: to make what is unconscious, conscious. Four processes involved: (1) free association (2) resistance (3) interpretation (4) insight. Patient says whatever comes to mind regardless of: social convention, logic & order, seeming importance, feelings of embarrassment. Anything that impedes progress: take unconscious content and make it conscious. Provides source of information about the patient.
