PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carl Jung, Ego Psychology, Repetition Compulsion
6 Nov 2017
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Refers to technically to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy guided by psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis emphasizes the primacy of driving forces within a person that motivate them to display consistent patterns of behavior and interpersonal relations. He proposed an organizational framework that contained the id, ego, and superego. Also, he described 3 levels of consciousness (preconscious, conscious and unconscious) A drive in the psychoanalytic strategy is an inborn force built into the human mind, when they are not satisfied we experience tension. 2 classes of drives: self-preservative: physical needs (breathing, thirst, hunger, excretion, sexual: sex drives, anything experienced as sensuous would have been considered sexual to. Libido (psychic energy for sexual drives: the libidinal energy for all mental activities (cognitive; such as thinking, perceiving, imagery, problem solving, created disagreement among post freudians including carl jung and alfred adler. Conflict: conflict between an individual and society (control impulses, also within an individual (moral vs. selfish choice)
