PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Josef Breuer, Martha Bernays, Class Collaboration
17 Feb 2017
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Cathartic method consisted of the patient talking themselves out of their symptoms: consciousness, the normal wakefulness, unconscious, the dream system. It was their class collaboration in the late 1890"s freud developed his psychoanalytic therapy. Study of dreams: freud"s first major psychoanalytic work was his interpretation of dreams , published in 1900, unconscious, pre-conscious, conscious. It is instincts and the total supply of psyche energy for the individual: this compromises the whole of the psyche that is resent at birth, sole of motivation is to gain pleasure and to avoid pain, entirely unconscious. It is an endless buffet where you can eat whatever you want and you can boink anything that moves: ego, this is the sane and rational part of the mind. It attempts to form realistic plans of actions to satisfy the needs of the id: super ego, the internalized realties (or rules) of the environment.
