PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Oedipus Complex, Preconscious, Defecation
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Discuss the key ideas of psychoanalysis: : psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, and mental energy. Discuss freud"s idea of how the mind is structured. Discuss implications for psychotherapy and modern life: freud himself. Left austria when hitler came to power. Believed war proved that people are aggressive and destructive. Influenced by his patients: well-to-do women who often reported sexual abuse by their fathers: the key ideas of psychoanalysis: psychic determinism. Definition: everything that happens in a person"s mind, including everything a person thinks and does, has a specific cause. Free will and random accidents do not exist. Contradictions of thoughts and behavior can be resolved, usually by looking at the unconscious part of the mind. Leads to idea of the unconscious: areas and processes of the mind of which a person is not aware: supported by modern research, the key ideas of psychoanalysis: internal structure.
