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1 2130 Personality Psychology “Know Thyself” Professor Ian McGregor Psychoanalytic Theory

2 Mesmer’s Animal Magnetism Tub

3 Psychoanalysis (of the unconscious and its “mysterious ways”)“mysterious ways”) Sigmund Freud Carl Jung

4 Administrative Reminders Read syllabus and regulations Emailing TAs—2130 and Section M or N. Being on time for tests 55 minutes long Enrollment— undergraduate office  736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building Bring York ID Research participation, timing, sign up under 2130, complete prescreen questions on SONA, only sign up for Psych 2130 studies. Study for test by rehearsing exact answers (questions are provided). Read Freud and Jung lectures last.

5 Last Week’s Lecture Summary Empowered, independent selves Appeal of Ideal Truth Virtue and happiness from self-knowledge and inner harmony (i.e., Plato’s horses)Plato’s horses Self-knowledge requires reflection, is mysterious, and virtue is difficult Greek (nature) in contrast to Freudian (nurture) theories of Individual Differences

6 This Week’s Lecture Overview Reading themes relevant for rest of course  “Association” and “complex”  Repression and the horse Freud’s three-part psyche, conflict and anxiety Freud’s iceberg model of the unconscious  Conservation of energy, drives, catharsis, displacement, sublimation, defense, repression, don’t starve the horse! Therapy and unconscious association  Repression  Free association, transference, and dreams Jung’s Departure

7 Freud’s Tripartite Psyche, and Anxiety*** Represssion  “Excessively intense,” “supervalent,” “reactive thoughts” “keep the objectionable one under repression by means of a certain surplus of intensity.”  Reactive thoughts form “mental dams” to keep threats “at bay.” Id (dark horse of desire)  Neurotic anxiety Ego (will, courage, white horse)  Reality anxiety Superego (rider, charioteer)  Moral anxiety Intrapsychic conflict

8 Freud’s Iceberg Unconscious

9 Psychodynamics Drives, wishes, energy  Libido (life instinct)  Thanatos (death instinct) Hydraulic theory  Catharsis  Displacement  Sublimation But give the poor horse some hay!

10 Displacement, OK, But Catharsis? Pillow punching Fired engineers and aggression Trauma teams and PTSD Pennebaker: Emotional writing and health EMDR Desensitization, or Meaning-making (Jung)?

11 Some Defense Mechanisms (A. Freud) Denial/distraction/suppression Rationalization Reaction Formation Repression (and return of the repressed)  Rowdy Audience-Member “Hysterical Conversion” into neurotic symptoms Resistance in therapy

12 Freud, Jung, Therapy Will-power vs. mystery moods Unconscious  conscious Meaning of symptoms Parapraxes, humour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPzM98h7NA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pvU1iyT3c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PGeKNk1oWo Free association Resistance Transference Dreams

13 Freud on Dreams Royal Road Wish fulfillment Sexual and aggressive themes Manifest and latent content Resistance—free association Anxiety Dreams—e.g., bears

14 Jung’s Smart Unconscious Not necessarily sex or death  “Approaching” the unconscious  Eternity, wholeness, meaning  Shadow integration, individuation  Jung’s dream, Freud’s interpretation  Ringing true or clicking

15 Jung’s Dream Examples Examples  Jekyll/Hyde  Neglected wife  Sanitizing heaven  Cow party  Flying

16 Jung’s Contentious Ideas Archetypes Synchronicity (e.g., knife, table cracking) Pre-cognition

17 Quiz Next Week 22 Multiple Choice (11/19) Longish answers (one page each for 2 questions) (8/19): 1. Describe Greek perspectives on personality processes (e.g., mythological and philosophical). 2. Describe Psychodynamic (Freud and Jung) perspectives on personality process (e.g., conflict, anxiety, defenses, therapeutic process). Be on time and bring York photo-ID

18 Administrative Reminders Read syllabus and regulations Emailing TAs—2130 and Section M or N. Being on time for tests 55 minutes long Enrollment— undergraduate office  736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building Quiz attendance and being on time Bring York ID Research participation, timing, sign up under 2130, complete prescreen questions on SONA, only sign up for Psych 2130 studies.


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