Why Freud is great…. Saw the importance of sex Saw the importance of childhood Created the first talking therapy

Sigmund Freud Unconscious Mind Freudian Slips Dreams Psychological defence mechanisms The structure of personality Psychosexual development Childhood sexuality.

Key assumption of the psychodynamic approach That a large part of the mind is ‘unconscious’ but it can affect our feelings, thoughts and behaviour

Conscious Preconscious Unconscious

Consciousness: The Conscious State: Means all the mental processes that we are directly aware of at a given moment. Thoughts that are suitable for us to be aware of pass from the unconscious to the conscience mind.

Pre-conscious: Contains thoughts that can become conscious to us. Thoughts arising from the unconscious that may at a later stage become conscious are stored here. We may only become aware of them under certain circumstances.

Unconscious: This part of the mind is NOT accessible and contains our inner drives and repressed experiences. All thoughts start here Biological instincts originate from here including unacceptable sexual thoughts. It contains the Eros and Thanatos instincts including the Libido which can manifests into the sex drive. Thoughts that do not go into the pre-conscious must be actively repressed- this is a dynamic process, although we are unaware of it happening.

Unconscious: Has no logic and makes no distinctions between reality and fantasy (carrying out sexual desires). Unconscious thoughts try to actively get though to or consciousness. Can use symbols such as in dreams. Can hold two conflicting thoughts at the same time- eg. Feeling love and hate . Influences behaviour in logical ways- or so Freud though- eg Freudian slips.

Revealing inner thoughts: Actively repressing inner thought takes up energy (psychic energy originates in the unconscious) Thought are sublimated where they are channelled into other forms: Freudian slips. Dreams Neurotic symptoms.

Use p55 in your Textbooks to write down definitions Manifest Content Latent Content Condensation Displacement Secondary Elaboration