PSY 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Dream Interpretation, Psychoanalytic Theory, Countertransference
1 May 2017
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Chapter 10: the psychoanalytic approach: free association: instructing the patient to say whatever came to mind for the same purpose, the key ideas of psychoanalysis, psychic determinism. The assumption that everything that happens in a person"s mind, and therefore everything that a person thinks and does, also has a specific cause. This idea leaves no room for miracles, free will, or even random accidents. From a psychoanalytic perspective, all seeming contradictions of mind and behavior can be resolved, and nothing is ever accidental. The purpose of psychoanalysis is to dig deep to find those reasons, which usually lie in the hidden part of the mind. The assumption of psychic determinism, therefore, leads directly to the conclusion that many important mental processes are unconscious. Only a small part is accessible to conscious awareness: internal structure. The mind has an internal structure made of parts that can function independently and which, in some cases, conflict with each other.
