SOC SCI H1F Lecture 7: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
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4 facets of freudian psychoanalysis can be discerned: a comprehensive theory of human personality, a method for conducting psychotherapy, an approach for the understanding culture and politics, an individual guide for navigating the difficulties associated with living. Basically freud wanted to study what people think about on a daily basis. his emphasis was upon self-knowledge in the management of our lives. Joseph: within the royal family, there was chaos and tragedy. empress elizabeth suffered from a variety of mental disorders and was assassinated in 1898 while visiting. Geneva the only son of franz and elizabeth killed himself so his nephew archduke franz. Psychoanalytic points of emphasis: recognition that the external world of reality and internal world of mind, what. Freud"s answer was based on the study of the following. Attention to affect involving anger, anxiety, shame, and guilt transferences (templates based upon past experiences that guide present reactions to others trauma and accidents in one"s autobiography.