PSYC 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anna O., Penis Envy, Moral Authority

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 210
• Professor: Polson David

Document Summary

Freud said that his proclaimation that we are not rational rulers of our lives but under the infuence of unconscious forces of which we are unaware was one of the 3 great shocks to the collective human ego. Psychoanalysis overlaps with psychology"s other schools of thought (began in 1895, freud died in. Was not a product of universities or science - arose from psychiatry & mental illness. Distinct: subject matter of psychopathology, primary method of clinical observation. Brought the notion of the unconscious to psychology. Three major sources of influence on the psychoanalytic movement: philosophical speculations about unconscious psychological phenomena. Developed monadology - theory of psychic entities, monads, which are similar to perceptions. Believed mental events had different degrees of concsiousness - lesser degrees are petites perceptions, conscious realizations are apperception. Herbart: refined notion of unconscious - gave concept of threshold of consciousness. Ideas must be compatible with those already in consciousness to rise into consciousness.