1. Psychodynamic Theory
Sigmund Freud ( )

2. Sigmund Freud Building Context
Childhood – a precocious child who was doted on by his mother.
Confidence, success, potential.
Education – University of Vienna (Medicine)
Ernst Brucke (mechanism) and the “Mechanist Movement”
Natural science provides answers.
Neurology
Interest: earliest structures of the brain stay the same across development.

4. Sigmund Freud Therapeutic Work Self-analysis
Loss of father; self-exploration.
Focus on dreams; unconscious.
Hypnosis
Free Association
“… allow all thought to come forth without inhibition or falsifications of any kind.”

5. Freud’s View of The Person
The Mind as an Energy System:
Personality is theory of mind, and the mind, as being a part of the body, is a mechanism that runs on energy.
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Energy systems are dynamic – not just information storage. Mental contents do things.
“Scientific goal”: how does mental energy flow, gets sidetracked, or gets damned up.

6. Exploring Anna O.
Talking Cure
“Catharsis”

7. Freud’s View of The Person
The Individual In Society:
Traditional thought: people are essentially good and society corrupts them.
Freudian thinking: sexual and aggressive desires are in-born.
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*The Pleasure Principle*
Children are “far from grace: - possess erotic desires and aggressive drives that society takes steps to restrict”.

8. Levels of Consciousness:
Freud and Structure
Levels of Consciousness:
1 – Conscious
2 – Preconscious
3 – Unconscious
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Think in terms of hierarchy – what is most easily accessed to the mental content imbedded in our unconscious.
Dreams as the pathway into the unconscious – motivated

9. Freud and Structure Components of the Mind:
1 – Id – “gimme” – pleasure principle
2 – Ego – reality – reality principle
A desire to maintain until maximum pleasure can be acquired. Think: ringleader.
3 – Superego – moral – guilt, altruism, etc.