PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Preconscious
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An individual"s characteristic patter of thinking, feeling and action (unique to who we are) Persist over time and across different situations (sad, angry, mad) Developed by sigmund freud during the victorian era: sexuality was repressed and the male dominance was prevalent, he developed theories based on these sexualities. Treated patients for nervous disorders: occasionally experienced patients that had this disorder could not be example, example: re-occurring paralysis of one hand or blind (no sensory damage, symptoms could not be explained. Unconscious: a reservoir of mostly unacceptable, wishes, feelings, and memories. Another method used to analyze the unconscious mind through interpreting manifest and latent content of dreams analyze client"s dream to enter unconscious mind. He proposed that there were two components to dreams: Chapter 14: personality: manifest remebered content of the dream (sensory expression of the conscious wishes, remember general storyline, latent hidden meaning of the dream (true meaning of the dream)
