PSY 241 Study Guide - Freudian Slip, Ego Ideal, Narcissism
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Book notes on chapter 2- freud: psychoanalysis: biography- a. Learned the hypnotic technique for treating hysteria, a disorder typically characterized by paralysis or improper functioning, from jean-marin charcot: josef breuer- one of freuds closest mentors. Taught him about catharsis, the process of removing hysterical symptoms through talking them out . i. through this, he discovered free association technique- this was his principle technique. c. Introduced phsycial analysis, or later called psychoanalysis, in his book. Studies on hysteria: greatest work- the interpretation of dreams, levels of mental life- a. two levels of mental life- the conscious and the unconscious. The unconscious had two levels- the unconscious proper and the precononscious: unconscious, freud believed the existence of the unconscious could only be proved indirectly. It was in the explanation of meaning behind dreams. exs- Sole function is to seek pleasure, so the id servers the pleasure principle the id is amoral. the id houses basic drives, and it operates through the.
