PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11&12: Deconstruction, Adult World, Thematic Apperception Test
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Provided first and possibly only theory of personality. Development (oral anal phallic- latency genital. ) Freud introduced the talking cure (psychotherapy: many of his ideas are still used today, he believed the early childhood is important, the internal conflicts and anxieties and ego defenses. Freud believed that everything comes to sex and aggression (libido) Freud text and subtext: manifest content, text: the surface and conscious level of experience. For instance the dream you appear having: latent content: subtext: the hidden and unconscious level of experience. Dream work: movement of latent to manifest level: process is spontaneous and unconscious process, symbolic representation: conversion of abstract wishes and urges into concrete ones. Things symbolize something else: condensation/compression: compression of multiple latent msgs into one theme, displacement: shift on emphasis of important threatening source by a safer one, secondary revision: making all scattered dream elements into a smooth continuity. Dream analysis: movement of manifest to latent level, attempt to discern latent intrapsychic conflict via.
