PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Unconscious Mind, Psychoanalytic Theory, Iceberg

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Introduction: psychodynamic theories of personality view human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and the unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts. Personality an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Free association in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Psychoanalysis freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret tensions. 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. unconscious. It strives for perfection, judging actions, and producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt.