RHETOR 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neurosis, Hypnosis, Neurology
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Freud: (1800s-1900s) austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, thoehis theory of unconscious is closely related to repression - claims that repression leads to neuroses. Treats the psychopathology of patients through the method of free association, asking them talk about their thougts and ideas freely without any censorship and being goal oriented. Preconscious, conscious, unconscious, psychic model of the id, superego and ego. Descartes: (early to mid 1600s), french philosopher, i think there i am, mind body duality, only consciousness is proof of human existencekant: (mid 1700s): german philosopher, thoughts are passing by and therefore obscure. Mediated representations enter into clarity, only a small part of representations are clear. Kant was favor of light versus darkness and shied away from the unconscious. He also came up with the conditions of possibility of knowledge, which was later replaced in late 19th and 20th.
