PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Freudian Slip, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalytic Theory
12 Jun 2018
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Freud
Early psychoanalytic theory of Freud
Freud's three models
SIGMUND FREUD
Ideas are dominated psychology for a century
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Ideas are still here today but altered
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Ideas are often misunderstood in popular culture
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Austrian
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Lived during Queen Victoria of England rule (reigned 1837 - 1901)
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There was a lot of self-control during the time
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Trained in neurology
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Got his ideas from treating patients with hysteria
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Biography
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Large portion of people during the 1870s - 1900s had hysteria saying they were sexually abused
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Freud that there might be some unconscious desires that was repressed and acting itself in the body and the mind -
place of conflict as he doesn't believe that large amount was all sexually abused
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"His fundamental insight - that the body might be playing out the dramas of the mind - has yet to be supplanted" - New
York Times, 2006
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What happens in our mind, influences our body --> we know today as psychologists
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HYSTERIA: EARLY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF FREUD
Don't know what's going on in our unconscious
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True
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Source of problem stems from the unconscious
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Desire vs self-control
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Debatable but still true
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Not as evil as Freud thought, but there were conflicts
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The mind is a place of conflict
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During Freud's time, child was used in labour
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People were not treating children properly
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Emphasis on childhood experiences
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Emphasis on sexuality
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FREUD'S THREE MODELS
The unconscious
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Above water --> consciousness (something that is in our attention)
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Multi-tasking is not real --> it is really just flipping back and forth in attention
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Under water but near surface --> Preconscious (something we could pay attention to - what we are going to do
over the holidays, memories etc.)
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Deep in water --> Unconscious (inner desires, urges, selfish needs, violent motives, irrational etc.)
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The iceberg is seen as pushing the unconscious thoughts down further deeper into our minds <-- a hydraulic
model - keeping down the pressure (e.g. someone getting angry, someone 'blowing off some steam' <-- Freud's
idea but is not necessarily true)
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Referred to as an iceberg
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Freud essentially sees human as beasts --> during the Victorian era
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"latent content" and "manifest content"
Dreams
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Slips
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Dreams and Freudian Slips
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When the unconscious starts to show, sleep --> where the unconscious can come out in the dreams ('Freudian slip')
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TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL
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8C - Personality
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When you say one thing where you meant to say another
Slips
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Pleasure principle
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Immediate gratification
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Eros (Greek gods - creation)
Sex (libido)
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Thanatos (Greek gods - destruction)
Death
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Animalistic nature to create and destroy
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No reason, just drive, instinct and need to be fulfilled
Operates by "primary process"
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E.g. I want it now!
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ID
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E.g. I need to do a bit of planning
Reality principle
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Sense of self
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To appease the super ego and the id sometimes
Ego defense mechanisms
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Using reason and logic, self-control
Operates by "secondary process"
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EGO
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e.g. you can't have it, it's not right!
Hard voice of internalized standards and moral values
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Socialised
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People who feel bad --> dominated by superego whereas some others can be dominated by the Id
(impulsive people)
Conscience and guilt
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SUPEREGO
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Id ('es' - in German), Ego ('ich'), Super Ego ('uber-ich')
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STRUCTURAL MODEL
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Attributing an unconscious impulse, attitude, trait, or behaviour to someone else
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Held you 'hide' the unwanted object from yourself
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Projection
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False consensus effect
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e.g. Larry Craig (US Senator) - very against same sex marriage but then he was arrested for prostitution
with another man in an airport vacuum
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Converting a socially unacceptable impulse into its opposite
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Homophobic men showed increased sexual arousal to gay pornography
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Adams, Write and Lohr (1996)
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Women with negative views toward sex showed most sexual arousal in response to pornography
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Morokoff (1985)
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Reaction formation
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Satisfying an impulse on a substitute object
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"kicking the dog" phenomenon
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Even present in rats and fish
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Most likely when triggered by a minor annoyance
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Scapegoating (Hovland and Sears, 1939)
Can happen when there is someone is in a higher hierarchy that pressures another that is lower in the
hierarchy
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Displaced aggression
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Displacement
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When Repression Fails: Ego Defense Mechanisms
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