PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Karen Horney, Freudian Slip, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Psychodynamic theories of personality view human behaviour as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind, including associated motives and conflicts. These theories are descended from freud s psychoanalysis, which first focused clinical attention on our unconscious mind. Speaking of ego, repression, projection, complex (as in inferiority complex ), sibling rivalry, freudian slips, and fixation. Freud turned to free association, in which he told the patient to relax and say whatever came to mind, no matter how embarrassing or trivial. He assumed that a line of mental dominoes had fallen from his patients distant past to their troubled present. He believed free association would allow him to retrace that line, following a chain of thought leading into the patient s unconscious, where painful conscious memories, often from childhood, could be retrieved and released. He called his theory of personality and the associated treatment techniques psychoanalysis.