PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wish Fulfillment, Latency Stage, Incest

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Sigmund freud: a brief biography: born in 1856 in freiberg but grew up in vienna, entered private medical practise, discovered that portions of the mind were outside conscious awareness. Interpretations of dreams-- book: unconscious mind expressed through dreams (dreams express inner wants and desires) Fundamental assumptions of psychoanalytical theory: psychic energy: motivates all human activity, amount remains constant over lifetime. Unacceptable information hidden from conscious view: so troubling that being aware of them would make someone anxious. Incest, hatred toward siblings, parents or spouses and memories of childhood trauma. Individuals have to learn to control their urges: keep them from entering conscious awareness. Psychic determinism: nothing happens by chance: talking cure: the unconscious cause of the symptom needs to first be discovered. Structure of personality: think of the mind as a plumbing system, psychic energy from the sexual and aggressive urges are the pressure which builds up and demands release.