PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unconscious Mind, Sigmund Freud, Projective Test
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Ego does not like to feel anxious: we develop strategies (ego-defensive machanisms) to avoid anxiety. Repression (internal forgetting: push it down into unconsciousness. Dreams are caused by pressure build up in unconsciousness. Dreams disguise the true means (latent content) in a bizarre symbolic message (manifest content) In the conscious mind, symbols typically have one meaning. In the unconscious world, symbols have multiple meaning all simultaneously. Dreams have a language of their own. Intended to help you learn more about what you think and feel. Concept the unconscious mind treats opposites as being equals. Examples: dream of a cold room (equals a hot room) Because you are dreaming of the sauna you accidently burnt down. When a symbol is a combination (or blend) of two things. Example: when you call someone your mother but it is another person. You need to un-blend them, unpack them. When your unconscious takes a phrase from your conscious and literally translates it in a dream.
