PSYC 1215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hermann Rorschach, Unconscious Mind, Karen Horney
30 Jul 2016
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Chapter 13 psychoanalysis: (1) sigmund freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; (2) freud"s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders. Freud believed that the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference and the therapist"s interpretations of them. Released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. (pp. Freud"s theory - our conscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg. beneeath our awareness is larger -the unconscious mind. unconscious: according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Freud created dynamics to further understand the brain. Id -ego -superego id: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
