PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Erogenous Zone, Freudian Slip, Penis Envy
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Sigmund freud was trained as a physiologist and an expert in observation which marked his work thereafter. He was fascinated by ailments that seemed to have no physiological cause and worked with. He came to believe that all human behavior is motivated by instinctual desires that provide psychic energy and these drives could be unconscious as well as conscious. Freud looked for personality in the details the meanings and insights revealed by careful analysis of the tiniest blemishes in a person"s thought and behavior. Psychoanalysis is both his theory of personality and his method of treating patients. Freud"s idea was that personality is a mystery to the person who owns it because we can"t know our own deepest motives. Psychodynamic approach is a personality formed by needs, strivings, and desires largely operating outside of awareness; motives that can produce emotional disorders. The real engines of personality, in this view, are forces of which we are largely unaware.
