PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Fig Leaf
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Lecture 10, march 29/2012: william james search for meaning: Emotion evoking bodily feedback creates feedback loop sustains emotion. Cognition and bodily reaction work together to create an experience, and the bodily reaction sustains the experience (classic example of organic + noetic). If something happens early on as powerful experience, it becomes a paradigm situation to which you are sensitive later on. E. g. early conflict makes one sensitive to conflict nowadays. These are generally unresolved conflicts carried around. Critical events happen early on, interpreted from perspective of child. Ziegarnik effect need for completion (psychodynamic narrative is need for completion essentially). Defense mechanisms are ways to avoid intensity of emotion not effective however. Value of therapy is the changing of unresolved issues into something that can be put onto table and dealt in responsible manner: cognitive psychology focus is on precision. Need a balance of the two: comte talked about positivism.
