PSYC 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phallic Stage, Sigmund Freud, Ego Ideal
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When you hear the term psychoanalysis, you may picture a psychiatrist treating a troubled patient on a couch. The term refers not only to a therapy for treating psychological disorders but also to a personality theory. F(cid:396)eud"s theo(cid:396)(cid:455) assu(cid:373)es a ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hi(cid:272) determinism: the view that there is a cause for our every thought, idea, feeling, action, or behaviour. Nothing happens by chance or accident; everything we do and even everything we forget to do has an underlying cause. Freud believed that there are three levels of awareness in consciousness: the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. [lo 11. 1] the conscious consists of whatever we are aware of at any given moment a thought, a feeling, a sensation, or a memory. When we shift our attention or our thoughts, a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)s i(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)t of the (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious. F(cid:396)eud"s p(cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious is (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:373)u(cid:272)h like the present-day concept of long-term memory.
