PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Karen Horney, Hermann Rorschach, Rorschach Test
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Sigmund freud has profoundly influenced western culture. 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. 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. 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. Some of these thoughts we store temporarily in a preconscious area, from which we can retrieve them into conscious awareness. We repress or forcibly block from consciousness because they would be too unsettling to acknowledge. These feelings and ideas lurking outside our awareness can powerfully influence us, sometimes gaining expression in disguised forms the work we choose, the beliefs we hold, our daily habits, our troubling symptoms.
