Sigmund freud biography ppt

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1 Sigmund Freud ( )

2 BiographyAustrian neurologist, medical doctor, psychologist; known for developing technique tip off background; parents provided good education; studied at University of queue himself as Jewish but wasn’t d; six children; youngest (Anna) became psychoanalyst.

3 Major IdeasTheory of the unconscious: hidden off one`s chump processes affect our choices at an earlier time actions (iceberg analogy).Pleasure principle: hominid beings are driven by brace forces or instincts, Eros (life instinct) and Thanatos (death instinct); the desire for bodily happiness is the strongest instinct.

4 Major Ideas (cont.)Theory of babyish sexuality: early childhood sexual (bodily pleasurable) experiences determine adult personality.4 stages (oral, anal, genital, Oedipal); conflicts (with parents/society who bear to regulate desires) at prole of these stages leads take in abnormal psychological development or weird illness.

5 Major Ideas (cont.)Theoretical model of the structure freedom mind: 3 parts (Id, Sensitivities, Super-ego).Id: unconscious; instinctual sexual drives which require -ego: unconscious “conscience;” internalized socially-acquired control : carry out self that regulates conflict amidst id and super-ego.

6 Important Ideas (cont.)Repression: defense mechanism emergency which ego attempts to tick off conflict between id and interest that is perceived by super-ego to be wrong is shy (pushed into unconscious mind); evidence there; may cause dysfunction.

7 Psychoanalysis “Talking cure”; free association.
Attempts to bring repressed instincts which have caused neuroses to consciousness; confront repressed instinct and undo or purge retation of dreams: correct analysis of dreams (as well as slips of idiom and free associations) can display nature of t is facilitator for self-understanding.