PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reaction Formation, Personal Unconscious, Preconscious
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Psychoanalysis: freud and jung: sigmund freud, born 1856 in what is now the czech republic and passed away in. England 1939: he lived in vienna, australia during most of his lifetime and spend his early education and career in the medical field, then he started a private practice focusing on the topic of nervous disorders. And one way to possibly get access to those memories is through hypnosis: psychoanalysis. System of psychotherapy that focuses on uncovering the unconscious material responsible for a patient"s disorder. There are 3 types of psychoanalysis: free association, dream interpretation, language and symbolic behavior. He argued that dreams were a form a wish fulfillment that the ultimate goal is to seek pleasure and desires, anything that makes you feel good. (ex. Objects that appear in dreams can be symbolic, which might be more personal than universal. Cave female genitalia: psychosexual development theory. Oral often through breast feeding by mother.
