PSYC 3060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oedipus Complex, Psychosexual Development, Freudian Slip
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Lecture 3 september 28, 2016 psychoanalytical approach: sigmund. Deepest and darkest corners of the mind. First person to propose approaching personality as a science. Freud defined what we study today as personality: set agenda for much of what we know as personality, some would argue that major contribution was the variety of topics he put on the agenda of personality psych. Freud: 19th century instead of rationality, thinkers stressed irrationality and unreason. Freud"s (cid:272)ulture (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ed his theor(cid:455: freud did(cid:374)"t start out as a ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologist, started as ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)ia(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:374)eurologist) in. Aggression, love, sexuality, conflict, neurosis, dreams, humour, accidents, etc. The well adjusted and neurotic individual had minds that functioned in the exact same way. Doctrine of opposites there are two sides to everything: many patients seen by freud were seen with hysteria. Theory need to explain: how sexual thoughts could occur early in childhood, how such thoughts were kept from consciousness, why there was any need to keep them from consciousness.
