PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Oedipus Complex, Medical Degree, Conflicting Emotions

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Influence of leibniz and his monadology: levels of awareness from clear to unaware, idea of threshold. Hebart- also talked about the idea of threshold- below the threshold is the unconscious. Goethe: idea of there being a constant struggle between conflicting emotions and tendencies, one of freud"s favourite writers. Existential philosophers: schopenhauer, nitzsch, what we got from them is the idea that were governed by irrational desires (emotional desires, not reason) Breuer: freud studied with him and he had a big influence of freud. Charcot had a big influence on freud as well. Spent most of his life in vienna. Used cocaine: criticized for using cocaine for purposes other than an anaesthetic for eye surgery. Transference: the idea that the patient is transferring feelings from some important other onto the therapist, something to be worked through/with, counter-transference is when the therapist starts to transfer feelings onto the patient. Thought that sexuality is the basis of neurosis.