PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Collective Unconscious, Donald Winnicott, Attachment In Adults
6 Sep 2013
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Part iv: the hidden world of the mind: the psychoanalytic approach. Chapter 12: psychoanalysis after freud: neo-freudians, object relations and current research. The theme of most post freudian psychoanalysts is to move away from his emphasis on built-in sexual and aggressive. Objects partially accurate mental images of people. Objects relations theory the modern school of psychoanalysis that deals with the origins and implications of objects. Attachment theory focuses specifically on how attachments to significant other people (attachment figures) and our images of such attachments can be a buffer in times of stress. Interpreting and revising a theory is divided by a fuzzy boundary. Most neo-freudian psychologists used the same methods as freud; saw patients, looked into themselves, read widely in history and literature, drew conclusions. Alfred adler; first major disciple of freud to end up at odds with freud. Adler thought freud focused too much on sex as the ultimate motivator and organizer of thought and behaviour.
