PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: The Resignation, Erik Erikson, Melanie Klein
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Psychodynamic: a term used to describe the freudian notion that the mind is in a state of conflict among instincts, reason, and conscience. Started when she was unable to express a strongly felt emotion. While under hypnosis, she experienced these emotions which gave her relief from her symptoms. Presumed that the release of emotions eliminated her symptoms. Freud concluded that all human behavior is motivated by instinctual drives, which, when activated, supply psychic energy": this energy is aversive because the nervous system seeks a state of quiet equilibrium. If something prevents the psychic energy caused by activation of a drive from being discharged, psychological disturbances will result. Unconscious: inaccessible part of the mind: still exert control over conscious thoughts and actions. The mind represses the memories of traumatic events, most of which are potentially anxiety- provoking, from being consciously discovered. Iceberg metaphor: only the tip is visible above water, the much larger and more important part of it is submerged.