PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unconscious Mind, Personal Unconscious, Toilet Training
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Studied hypnosis with jean-martin charcot treated patients with nervous disorders and developed theory of unconsciousness. Adult personality a result of how we suppress aggression + urges. Human mind is like a hydraulic system. Freud"s assumptions: development is driven by biology, early experiences engender adult personality, early social life is important, pleasure is sexual from the get to. Strong innate forces that provide all the energy in the psychihc system freud"s original theory of instincts was influenced by darwin"s theory of evolution in initial formulation, two instinct classes: Although freud initially believed that the life instinct and death instinct worked to oppose one another, he later argued that that they combine in various ways. Eating servers the life instincts consumption of nutrients necessary for survival. At the same time, eating involves acts of tearing, biting, and chewing seen as aggressive manifestations of the death instinct. Unconscious motivation: sometimes we don"t know why we do.
