PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anal Retentiveness, Phallic Stage, Toilet Training

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Born may, 6 in moravia to jewish parents, although he was never religious. He was interested in becoming a neurologist researcher but because he was jewish he was not aloud, and so he picked the closest thing to it: medical doctor. Beings to get cases of conversion hysteria; first doctor to take condition seriously: ailments with no physiological explanation. He finds it interested and thinks something mental that causes it. He publishes his most famous work, the interpretation of dreams in 1900: becomes famous for this in america. Sigmund freud is the founder of the psychodynamic theory. These theories of human personality focus on the inner forces that interact to make us who we are: these inner forces motivate our personality, behaviour, emotions, health, illness etc. These inner forces that shape who we are is a dynamic process betweenconscious and unconscious processes: this is through constant conflicts.