PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40 - 42: Rorschach Test, Sexual Repression, Unconscious Mind

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psychodynamic theories look at human behaviour as a changing interaction b/w conscious and unconscious mind personality - person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting includes motive and conflicts. A time where there was sexual repression and male dominance free association = patients are to relax and say whatever comes to mind psychoanalysis = treatment technique to trace painful unconscious memories and release them. Believed the mind is mostly hidden (iceberg) unconscious - thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. Human personality, emotions, occur from conflicts b/w impulse and restraint (b/w aggressive, pleasure-seeking biological urges, and internalize social control over urges) Freud"s psychosexual stages erogenous zones = pleasure-sensitive areas of the body. Focus mouth - sucking, biting, chewing bowel/bladder elimination - control genitals ; incestuous sexual feelings. Oedipus complex: boys have unconscious desires for their mother and jealous/hate their father (rival) - fear castration from father.