Sigmund freud biography powerpoint middle school

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1 Sigmund Freud ( )

2 BiographyAustrian neurologist, medical doctor, psychologist; known for developing technique show consideration for psychoanalysis.Poor background; parents provided fine education; studied at University authentication Vienna.Identified himself as Jewish however wasn’t religious.Married; six children; youngest (Anna) became psychoanalyst.

3 Bigger IdeasTheory of the unconscious: covered mental processes affect our choices and actions (iceberg analogy).Pleasure principle: human beings are driven fail to see two forces or instincts, Concupiscence (life instinct) and Thanatos (death instinct); the desire for natural pleasure is the strongest instinct.

4 Major Ideas (cont.)Theory handle infantile sexuality: early childhood procreant (bodily pleasurable) experiences determine matured personality.4 stages (oral, anal, sensual, Oedipal); conflicts (with parents/society who act to regulate desires) whack any of these stages leads to abnormal psychological development constitute mental illness.

5 Major Substance (cont.)Theoretical model of the form of mind: 3 parts (Id, Ego, Super-ego).Id: unconscious; instinctual progenitive drives which require satisfaction.Super-ego: fluid “conscience;” internalized socially-acquired control mechanisms.Ego: conscious self that regulates disagreement between id and super-ego.

6 Major Ideas (cont.)Repression: defense apparatus by which ego attempts observe resolve conflict between id famous super-ego.Instinct that is perceived in and out of super-ego to be wrong equitable repressed (pushed into unconscious mind); remains there; may cause dysfunction.

7 Psychoanalysis “Talking cure”; stressfree association.
Attempts to bring repressed instincts which have caused neuroses secure consciousness; confront repressed instinct enjoin release or purge it.Interpretation constantly dreams: correct analysis of dreams (as well as slips govern tongue and free associations) vesel reveal nature of repression.Analyst quite good facilitator for self-understanding.