PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Sigmund Freud, Sexual Repression, Oedipus Complex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Psychodynamic theories- view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Personality- an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Sigmund freud found tremendous discovery and scientific advancement in sexual repression and male dominance. 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. Believed free association would allow him to retrace the patient"s unconscious thought, where painful unconscious memories, often from childhood, could be retrieved and released. 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 unconscious tensions. Conscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg that floats above the surface. 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.