PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Subliminal Stimuli, Conversion Disorder, Waking Life
6 Nov 2017
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Chapter 3: a psychodynamic theory: freud"s psychoanalytic theory of personality. Sigmund freud (1856-1939): a view of the theorist: a key figure in his training was a professor of physiology named ernst bruke, who took part in an intellectual movement known as mechanism. The mechanist movement addressed questions about the nature and possibilities of the science of biology. It is best understood by contrasting it with an opposing movement, Freud analyzed the contents his own experiences, concentrating particularly on his dreams, which he thought would reveal unconscious thoughts and desires. In 1900, freud published his most significant work, the interpretation of dreams: freud"s views about the psychology of child. Freud"s view of the person: freud"s theory of personality is fundamentally a theory of a mind- a scientific model of the overall architecture of mental structures and processes, to freud, the body is a mechanistic energy system. In freud"s energy model, however, mental conflicts do not merely sit in storage inertly.
