PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Human Nature, Psychoanalysis, Viktor Frankl

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Psychoanalysis fruad human nature is inherently violent, people are governed by sex and aggression. Hydrolic view of human nature (repression, motives memories, no free will) Humanistic tradition: carl rogers (the most important figure) Complete opposite view compared to fraud (psychoanalysis: personal responsibility people have choices, everyone can reach their full potential under the right conditions, self-actualization, growth, positivity, optimism, creating a meaningful life. Main emphasis: conscious awareness of needs, choice, and personal responsibility, human need for growth and realizing one"s full potential. Main need = the need to grow (to a person full potential) Approach is a counter-response to psychoanalytic and behavioral traditions, both of which are held that people have little free will in determining their actions. People are inertly good, and if they are not its because they have learned/experienced things that have made them believe that they are not worthy and become bad.