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2. Beginnings of Psychoanalytic
therapy and theory
resistance
to attempts to remember events
taken as evidence of
repression
Psychoanalysis is a dynamic
(motivational) conception which
traces mental life back to an interplay
between forces that favour or inhibit
each other (Freud, 1910)
Figure 6.1
b. Revised theory (1933)
a. Anxiety
Threat from:
id = neurotic anxiety
(Freud,1932, p.103).
b. Defense mechanisms (with A. Freud)
Displacement
Repress impulse + direct it toward less
threatening object
Sublimation
Repress impulse + direct it toward less
threatening, socially desirable object
Projection
Repress impulse + see it in others
Reaction formation
Repress impulse + express its opposite
Rationalization
Repress impulse + express more
desirable motive
c. Dreams
a royal road to the unconscious
May reflect:
d. Neurotic symptoms
Maladaptive or inappropriate
behavior or thoughts
2 attitudes:
extroversion vs. introversion
ways of experiencing:
sensing vs. intuition,
feeling vs. thinking,
judging vs. perceiving
Incomplete or inconsistent
theoretical ideas
(e.g., Freuds female psychology)