PSYCH 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Freudian Slip, Iceberg, Preconscious
23 Jan 2017
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Structural brain research and imaging techniques were not available during his time. Unconcerned with cultural issues and differences: treats development as one common path. Time, generation, culture, etc. do not play a role, according to freud. First to look at a developmental pathway. Mental illness could be treated and approached scientifically like a physical illness. First to consider basic biological drives influence us. Psychic determinism: everything has an identifiable cause. Mind has internal structure: parts independent, can conflict. Id, ego, superego (iceberg: conscious tip of iceberg. Thoughts and perceptions: preconscious memories and stores knowledge, unconscious level largest part of the iceberg. Fears, violent motives, unacceptable sexual desires, irrational wishes, immoral urges, selfish needs, shameful experience. Compromise formation: result = what individual thinks and does. Id contents = primitive drives and emotions. Operating principle = pleasure: primary process thinking: unconscious thinking without negatives, no sense of time, practicalities, or dangers. Tie feelings together, displace ideas, condense ideas, and use symbolization.
