PSYCH 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Overdetermination, Reaction Formation
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The dream work translates the latent wish into the manifest content. The dreamer must free associate to the manifest content. When it gets scary, embarrassing, or icky, you are getting close to the true latent wish. Only the dreamer knows what a dream means. The wish may be a wish for punishment. Operate automatically and unconsciously in response to signal anxiety . Projection: we see in another what we fear in ourselves. Reaction formation: we experience the opposite of our unconscious feelings. The first to recognize childhood as an important time, setting the stage for adult development. The first to suggest a stage theory of development. The first to recognize the role of unconscious processes in human behavior. Based a general theory of human personality on individuals struggling with psychological disorder. Neglected the role of actual experience vs. fantasy in human development. The ends of human development are low level misery.
