PSY 0160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sigmund Freud, Unconscious Mind, Conversion Disorder
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Views of humans: at the time, society believed that humans are born pure and then corrupted by society, freud proposed the opposite: society tames urges. Biology i(cid:374) place of (cid:862)vitalis(cid:373)(cid:863: vitalism is the belief that a soul or spirit gives the body life, biology gives the body life. Freud: states of excitation in body (instincts or drives) are source psychic energy. Instincts and drives are in the body and mind: psychic energy is purely biologically based, situations determine whether we act on these drives. Life instinct: libido: about the drive to preserve the organism and reproduction of the organism. Death instinct: thanatos: an organism also has the drive to return to an inorganic state. Used hypnosis on patients: physical symptoms for no medical reason (now called conversion disorder, suggestibility determines ability of the ease to be put under hypnosis. Free association: say whatever comes to mind, believed to be a way to get at unconscious material.
