ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Exhibitionism, Polymorphous Perversity, Hypnosis
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Task 7: psychoanalysis: a new science for a new century. Primary and secondary processes: dream work closely resembles processes freud identified to underlie hysteria (displacement, condensation/overdetermination, concrete representation/symptoms, processes opposite to logical/scientific thinking, hypothesise two ideal and opposed modes of mental activity: The wish-fulfillment hypothesis: all dreams represent soe element of the fulfilment of wishes. Idea gained reinforcement when freud examined his own free associations during personally difficult time after his father"s death. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy: first freud saw his task as straightforward: encourage free association, sometimes, treatments ended disastrously, as in case of ida brauer/dora. Increasingly found that unconscious resistance of patients could be very subtle. Product of ego: some compromises more adaptive than others, hysterical symptoms maladaptive compromises in which considerations of pcp. cs are ignored and pressures of id confronted by superego id impulses received disguised rather than overt expression.
