ENGL 2024 Chapter : Psychoanalytic Theory
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Psychoanalytic theory: sigmund freud, any man could harbor same sex thoughts , the father of psychoanalysis, two colleagues: lacan and jung, concepts, unconscious, repression. Infantile sexuality: theories help us understand human psychological development, treated patients by studying their subconscious which he accessed through dreams and other methods, the cornerstone of freud"s theories, human personality is an energy-system. The modifications, transmissions, and conversions of the human personality help to shape it. It is the function of psychology to investigate the personality and to delve into the subconscious in order to properly treat the patient: the dynamic model, text pg. 127: ex: iceburg, underwater is considered your unconscious. Instinctual sexual drives: totally unconscious, ex: infants think with their id , super- ego, text pg. 127: ex: iceburg, everything, socially-acquired control mechanism, the conscious self, unconscious screening mechanism which seeks to limit the blind pleasure- Imparted usually by parents, media, ect. seeking of the id: screens/filters the id, ego, text pg.
