FREUD PSYCHOANALYSIS IS PSYCHOANALYSIS REALLY THAT INFLUENCIAL MAJOR

FREUD & PSYCHOANALYSIS IS PSYCHOANALYSIS REALLY THAT INFLUENCIAL? MAJOR INFLUENCES ON FREUD’S THINKING KEY NOTIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM CONFLICT UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY ID, EGO, SUPEREGO ANXIETY & DEFENSE MECHANISMS 1

PSYCHOANALYSIS = the single most influential school of thought of the XX century 2

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ARTS Surrealism -- Salvador Dali (1904 -1989) 3

Buñuel (1900 -1983) --Un Chien Andalou A man. A woman. A knife. An eye. A moon. A cloud. The man slices open the woman's eye as a cloud slices across the moon. 4

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE Broken Glass by (UM alumnus) Arthur Miller Set in 1938, during the rise of Nazism and government-sanctified anti. Semitism, a Brooklyn couple are forced to deal with the wife's psychosomatic paralysis. This affliction could exist for many disparate reasons, such as the couple's bitter marriage, her husband's futile attempted assimilation into the Gentile world, her obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, or just as a plea for attention. It is up to the couple's doctor to discover the root of this illness. 5

Question for the class: In your view, why were Freud’s ideas and psychoanalysis so shocking to society? 6

Freud’s view of the human psyche as ridden by unconscious and uncontrollable forces of sexual origin. 7

MAJOR INFLUENCES ON FREUD’S THINKING: 3 historical phenomena 2 relationships 8

ROMANTICISM Celebration of the emotional and irrational aspects of human nature Delacroix (1798 -1863) 9

RATIONALISM & EMPIRICISM Providing a scientific account for all phenomena Ramon y Cajal (1852 -1934) 10

RATIONALISM & EMPIRICISM Providing a scientific account for all phenomena e. g. , providing a scientific explanation for hysteria? (paralysis with no apparent physical cause) FREUD’S MECHANISTIC VIEW OF THE MIND mind = machine that uses psychological energy; this energy can only be displaced or transformed (never destroyed) 11

WW 1 Self-destruction as part of human nature 12

CHARCOT (1825 -1893) Hypnosis as a research method and therapeutic tool Hysteria: paralysis with no apparent physical cause 13

BREUER (1842 -1925) Talking-cure: unstructured talk about fantasies, dreams, symptoms, fears ---> release of psychic energy 14

KEY NOTIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS • PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM • CONFLICT • UNCONSCIOUS 15

PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM There is not such thing as random behavior; all our acts are determined by internal forces (wishes, fears) related to two basic instincts INSTINCTS: LIFE (libido) & DEATH (aggression) Mental representation of a biological need; Energy of the psyche MENTAL ENERGY Biological need Increase in Psychological need Socially acceptable (e. g. , sex) tension/arousal -INSTINCTexpression (e. g. , sexual dream) 16

CONFLICT • Our lives are a constant negotiation of opposing impulses (desire/fear; love/hate) • Such conflicts produce anxiety (realistic, neurotic, moral) 17

TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL OF THE MIND UNCONSCIOUS 18

FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES Personality development is very much influenced by sexual development STAGES: Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital (see textbook for this topic) 19

STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY Different personalities result from the different interactions among these structures (which compete with each other for the psych energy available). 20

Question for the class: Main difference between Ego and Superego? 21

Ego: guided by reality, postpones but does not prohibit (is pragmatic, rational) Superego: guided by morality, inhibits (is moralistic, perfectionist) 22

TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL OF THE MIND TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL OF THE MIND 23

ANXIETY & DEFENSE MECHANISMS 24

EGO’S DEFENSE MECHANISMS ‘it’= ANXIETY PROVOKING, UNACCEPTABLE THOUGHT OR IMPULSE • DENIAL: refusal to acknowledge its existence • REPRESSION: pushing it out of awareness 25

EGO’S DEFENSE MECHANISMS ‘it’= ANXIETY PROVOKING, UNACCEPTABLE THOUGHT OR IMPULSE • DENIAL: refusal to acknowledge its existence • REPRESSION: pushing it out of awareness • PROJECTION: attributing it to someone else • REACTION FORMATION: overemphasizing its opposite • REGRESSION: retreating to an earlier (immature) stage of development • IDENTIFICATION: identifying oneself with a feared person • RATIONALIZATION: giving excuses for it • INTELLECTUALIZATION: distancing oneself from it by ‘studying it’ 26

EGO’S DEFENSE MECHANISMS ‘it’= ANXIETY PROVOKING, UNACCEPTABLE THOUGHT OR IMPULSE • DENIAL: refusal to acknowledge its existence • REPRESSION: pushing it out of awareness • PROJECTION: attributing it to someone else • REACTION FORMATION: overemphasizing its opposite • REGRESSION: retreating to an earlier (immature) stage of development • IDENTIFICATION: identifying oneself with a feared person • RATIONALIZATION: giving excuses for it • INTELLECTUALIZATION: distancing oneself from it by ‘studying it’ • DISPLACEMENT: shifting it to a nonthreating, neutral object 27

POSSIBLE TOPIC FOR EXTRA-CREDIT PAPER Modern and empirical work on Ego’s functioning: EGO-CONTROL & EGO-RESILIENCE Jack & Jeanne Block (1980) 28

CLASSIFICATION OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS • Hysteria grouping • Obsessive grouping (Table 3. 3 in the textbook) 29