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Overview of Freud's Psychoanalysis Theory

The document discusses the lack of theoretical unity in psychology, highlighting various schools of thought such as Structuralism, Functionalism, and Psychoanalysis. It focuses on Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, detailing his contributions to understanding mental disorders and the structure of the mind, including the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. Freud's theories also introduce the concepts of the id, ego, and superego, which explain the dynamics of human behavior and morality.

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Overview of Freud's Psychoanalysis Theory

The document discusses the lack of theoretical unity in psychology, highlighting various schools of thought such as Structuralism, Functionalism, and Psychoanalysis. It focuses on Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, detailing his contributions to understanding mental disorders and the structure of the mind, including the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. Freud's theories also introduce the concepts of the id, ego, and superego, which explain the dynamics of human behavior and morality.

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Psychology and Life

4th semester
What are currents?
psychological?
Psychology lacks a theoretical unity; it is not a unified science.
there are different theoretical perspectives that use languages and methods
very different.
The main psychological schools are:
Structuralism
Functionalism
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Humanism
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
He was born in Freiberg, in the former Moravia (now Príbor,
Czech Republic), on May 6, 1856.
He was an Austrian neurologist of Jewish origin,
father of psychoanalysis and one of the greatest figures
intellectuals of the twentieth century.

He focused on the field of neurology, deriving


progressively towards the psychological aspect of the
mental disorders.
He studied in Paris, with the French neurologist Jean-Martin.
Charcot, the applications of hypnosis in the
treatment of hysteria.
In collaboration with Josef Breuer, he developed the method
cathartic.
It replaced both the hypnotic suggestion and the
cathartic method through free association and
the interpretation of dreams.
His main theory is Psychoanalysis.
What is psychoanalysis?
According to Freud himself, the term of psychoanalysis
design three things:
1. A method of research and analysis of processes
mental.
A treatment technique for disorders
neurological.
3. A body of psychological knowledge that replaces the
classical psychology.
The conscious, unconscious and
preconscious
According to the first Freudian topology, the psychic apparatus
is composed of three elements: conscious,
preconscious and unconscious.
Freud describes the conscious mind as
a composition of all the mental processes of the
what we are aware of. The same
(conscious mind) is situated in the present and is the one who
allows the subject to have perception of reality.
In the preconscious mind lies what is not in the
consciousness but also not in the unconscious. In that place they are situated

the feelings and thoughts of which the subject is not


aware at the very moment they happen, but when
If you wish, you can bring them to consciousness.
The unconscious mind understands the processes.
mental processes that are inaccessible to consciousness. For him,
the unconscious is the primary source of behavior
human
In the unconscious
they find wishes
instinctive and
primitive that they have
have been repressed.
Freud in 1889 had observed several patients who
they showed symptoms of post-hypnotic suggestion or of
"delayed effects".
He sought an explanation for the way of operating of the

mind. He proposed a structure of it divided


in three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego.
HELLO
Represents the primal urges or impulses.
According to Freud, it constitutes the engine of thought and the

human behavior. It contains our desires


of more primitive gratification.
SUPERYÓ
The superego, the part that counters the id, represents
moral and ethical thoughts.
YO
The self remains between both. It acts as a mediator between
our primitive needs and our ethical beliefs
and morals. It is not synonymous with consciousness (there are parts
a healthy self provides
the ability to adapt to reality and interact with it
external world in a way that represents the best
commitment between desires and instinctual drives of the
Hello and the restrictive or punitive demands coming from the
superego.

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