PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oral Stage, Electra Complex, Erik Erikson

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Biography of freud (1856-1939: born may 6 in moravia, 1900 the interpretation of dreams, died september 23 in england. Inner (unconscious) forces interact to make us who we are: behaviour, emotions, and personality develop in a dynamic (interacting, changing) interplay between conscious and unconsciousness processes, including carious motives and inner conflicts. Famous neo-freudians : otto rank 1884-1939, karen horney 1885-1952, anna freud 1895-1982, erich fromm 1900-1980. Famous feuding-freudians : alfred adler 1870-1937, carl jung 1875-1961, harry stack sullivan 1892-1949, erik erikson 1902-1994. The layers of personality: unconscious is deep under water, subconscious level somewhat seen when close, conscious level visible. Routes to the unconscious: free associations, the couch , mistakes, dreams, freudian slips ; forgetting words, names, etc, latent content, the royal road to the unconscious , projective tests, standardized set of ambiguous prompts designed to reveal inner dynamics. Impose meaning on it if we don"t have definition.