PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dementia Praecox, Oedipus Complex, Personal Unconscious
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Psy230h1f lecture 2 sept. 20, 2011: understand how biography influences theory, ex. Family, time period, culture: don"t need to know dates at all. Mother: ugly, authoritarian, and haughty (prone to anger). Oedipus complex would not make sense to him. Spent much time on own entertaining + So often left school for 6 months. Stopped when heard father say he couldn"t function for real life. Dual personality (from spending so much time alone, nervousness spilt off to wanting prominence): Nervous boy, shushed when spoke up, imagined he was prominent prominent man of 18th century. I cannot believe in what i do not know, and. If i"m hungry, i feel i"m hungry and i what i know i need not believe in. know i"m hungry thinking doesn"t have a place, important to hold onto knowledge. Medicine on scholarship, wanted to study optometry. Notice: any of these theorists started out in non-psych studies. Ppl used to be chained, inhumane treatment.
