PSYC 2520 Lecture Notes - Sigmund Freud, Libido, Toilet Training
22 Aug 2012
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The concept mojo" (modern translation of a freudian concept of libido) refers to life energy, a concept popularized by jim morrison in the 1950s, then later seen in austin powers. Three major forces in the 20th century, three major perspectives/movements of the human behaviour including psychoanalysis, behaviourism and its modern variation, and humanism. Psychoanalysis originates from sigmund freud, very dark view of the human condition, he saw people as fundamentally unhappy and incapable of happiness, dark animals caged by civilization, general state of discontent. We have multiple motivations of what and how we act, and we are completely unaware of what motivates us, there are outside of our awareness for good reason. Dark view that humans are determined by motives that are determined to control and govern our. Freud had multiple theories and hypotheses about human behaviour, and development, human mind structural model and the layers of human experience (conscious to unconscious)
