PSYC*4110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Miral, Object Relations Theory, Otto Rank
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Wanted to place his clinical discoveries within a broader theoretical context by focusing on the general features of the human mind that enabled it to produce the symptoms, dreams, and transferences he observed in his patients and himself. Referred to this as metapsychology: earliest metapsychological theorizing occurred in the 1890s when he proposed neurological structures and mechanisms capable of producing the dreams and symptoms of hysteria he saw in his psychotherapy. Most famous psychical localities appeared in the ego and the id: argued the psyche is constantly influenced by three kinds of demands that inevitably conflict with one another. Conflict with instinctual urges, whose satisfactions had to be delayed, modified, or abandoned because of constraints in the real world: moral demands: influence the mind independently of the instincts and external reality. Some people refrain from satisfying their impulses because they think it would be wrong, even if there is nothing in the physical environment from doing so.
