GROUP 1

Galang, Pauline
Lustresano, Rosemarie
Malihan, Patrick
Patelo, Gian Paolo
Tuvera , Julianne Fiona
Warren , John Carl
Sigmund Freud
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
 Short Biography…

SIGMUND FREUD
 born May 6, 1856 in
Czech Republic
 eldest son of Jacob and
Amalie Nathanson Freud
 grew up feeling favored by his
mother: lead him to observe
that mother/son relationship
was the most perfect of human
relationship
 A neurologist
 joined the medical faculty
at University of Vienna
 brought up theories of the
unconscious mind
 when the Nazis took
control Freud's books were
prominent among those
burned by the Nazis
 died in London on
September 23, 1939
 Focus of the Theory,
FREUD’S PSYCHOANALYTIC
THEORY
 was developed in Vienna in the 1890s for he was
interested in finding an effective treatment for
patients with neurotic or hysterical symptoms
 devoted to the study of human psychological
functioning and behavior
 Analysis of the human psyche
 systematized set of theories about human
behavior
 There are other schools of psychoanalysis
but it wasn’t Freud who wrote them
 He wrote the Topographic Theory,
Structural Theory, Ego Psychology and
Conflict Theory
APPLICATIONS
 method of investigation of the mind and the way
one thinks
 method of treatment of psychological or
emotional illness
subtheories

SCHOOLS
TOPOGRAPHIC THEORY

 "The Interpretation of
Dreams" (1900)
 dreams had symbolic
significance, and generally
were specific to the
dreamer
 Posits that the mental apparatus can be divided in to the
systems
 Conscious
 Preconscious
 Unconscious
STRUCTURAL THEORY

 breaks the human psyche down into

three critical parts
 Id
Id Super Ego
 Ego
 Superego Ego
 ID
 most basic part and is present at birth
 seeks to avoid pain or unpleasure
 functions with the pleasure principle
 Childish, irrational and illogical
 Is always repressed*

*The mind of a newborn child is regarded

as completely "id-ridden"
ID'S DRIVES AND INSTINCTS’ TWO CATEGORIES

drives and instincts

Eros Thanatos

Life instincts Death instincts

 EGO

 seeks to please the id’s drive in realistic ways

 acts according to the reality principle
 helps us to organize our thoughts and make sense of
them
 What you present in the external world
EGO DEFENSE MECHANISMS
arguing against an anxiety provoking stimuli by stating it doesn't
denial exist

displacement taking out impulses on a less threatening target

avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual

intellectualization aspects

projection placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else

rationalization supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason

reaction formation taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety

regression returning to a previous stage of development

repression pulling into the unconscious

sublimation acting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way

suppression pushing into the unconscious

 SUPER EGO
 internalized societal and
parental standards of
"good" and "bad", "right"
and "wrong" behavior
 a type of conscience that

punishes misbehavior with

feelings of guilt
 symbolic internalization of
the father figure and
cultural regulations
ICEBERG METAPHOR
•An iceberg can serve as a
useful metaphor to understand
the unconscious mind, its
relationship to the conscious
mind and how the two parts of
our mind can better work
together. As an iceberg floats
in the water, the huge mass of
it remains below the surface.
 EGO PSYCHOLOGY

 initially suggested by in Inhibitions, Symptoms and

Anxiety (1926)
 Inhibition - one method that the mind may utilize to
interfere with any of ego functions* in order to
avoid painful emotions

*sensory perception, motor control, symbolic thought, logical thought, speech,

abstraction, integration (synthesis), orientation, concentration, judgment about
danger, reality testing, adaptive ability, executive decision-making, hygiene, and
self-preservation
 CONFLICT THEORY

 update and revision of structural theory

 looks at how emotional symptoms and character
traits are complex solutions to mental conflict
 To formulate compromise
HIERARCHY
Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalytic Theory
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