PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Electra Complex, Oedipus Complex, Preconscious

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Patients led to freud"s discovery of the unconscious. Freud at first thought hypnosis might unlock the door to the unconscious but his patients did not agree to terms. Freud turned to free association: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis: freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Freud viewed that human personality arises from conflict between impulse and restraint seeking biological urges and our internalized social controls over these urges. Believed that personality is the result of our effects to resolve basic conflict. Id: contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud strives for basic sexual and aggressive drives.