Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Freudian Slip, Personal Unconscious, Carl Jung

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations. Behaviours are seen to have internal causes, no external. Behavours fit together in a patter imply personality. Psychodynamic theory looks at causes of behavior at the unconscious level. Psychoanalysis analysis of internal (usually unconscious) psychological force. Sigmund freud: treated patients with conversion hysteria blindness, paralysis, etc with no physical causes, under hypnosis, or free association, patients would begin to remember past traumatic events, after remembering, symptoms disappear. Freud"s psychic energy : systems caused by unconscious mind personality is an energy system , instinctual sexual and aggressive drives generate psychic energy which presses for release (release may be direct or indirect, over-reliance on defense mechanisms (ex. Thoughts, perceptions, and other mental events of which we are currently aware: preconscious. Mental events not currently in awareness, but can be easily recalled on (or focused on: unconscious.