OVERVIEW
Psychoanalytic Concepts
Dont take it out on me!
DISPLACEMENT (transferring anger
with one person on to another person)
SIBLING RIVALRY
INFERIORITY COMPLEXES
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Individual
psychologic
al history:
- Childhood Individual
experiences human World
- Adolescent and beings
-Adult behavior
patterns
and Classical Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
the goal of
Psychoanalysis
is to resolve our
Psychological problems
Disorders/ Dysfunctions
THE UNCONSCIOUS
DESIRES
FEARS
UNCONSCIOUS
NEEDS
CONFLICTS
AND EMOTIONS WOUNDS
EXPERIENCES FEARS
PAINFUL
THE
UNCONSCIO
US
UNRESOLVED GUILTY DESIRES
CONFLICTS
Comes into being
in childhood
through THE
A
REPRESSION,
DYNAMIC THE
ENTITY that EXPUNGING THE
engages us at UNCONSCIOUS
from
the deepest level
consciousness of
of our being
these unhappy
psychological
events
Acknowledgement
We need to acknowledge to ourselves
the true causes of our
- repressed wounds
- fears
- guilty desires
- unresolved conflicts (e.g. longing for
the love of the alcoholic father/mate)
Family
it is very important in psychoanalytic theory
we are each a product of the role we are given in
the family-complex
the birth of the unconscious lies in the way we
perceive our place in the family:
Im the failure
Im the perfect child;
I must always come in second to my
brother
Im unlovable
Im responsible for my parents problems.
Sibling
rivalry
(competition
Castratio Penis with siblings
n anxiety envy for the
attention and
afection of
parents)
Oedipal conflict
Old style Freudian theory:
Dis-
placemen Avoidanc
Projectio t e
n Denial Selective
is taking is staying memory
is ascribing away from is
it out on Selective
our fear, people or believing is modifying
problem, or someone our perceptio
situations that the
guilty desire or memories n
that are
to someone something problem so that we
liable to is hearing
else and less doesnt dont
make us and seeing
then threatenin anxious exist or feel only what
condemning the overwhelme
g than the by stirring we
him or d by them
person up some unpleasant feel we can
her for it, in or forgetting
order to who unconscious incident handle
painful
deny that we i.e., never
caused our events
have it repressed happened
fear, hurt, entirely)
ourselves. experience
frustration, or emotion
or anger
which are kept in the unconscious
the contents of our unconscious
DEFENSES
Regression
the most complex Defense
Fear of abandonment
Fear of betrayal
Low self-esteem
Oedipal fixation
Core issues define our being in
fundamental ways
Fear of intimacy can function as both a defense and
a core issue
A given core issue can result from another core issue
or can cause the emergence of another core issue.
They do not consist of occasional negative feelings,
such as passing episodes of insecurity or low self-
image.
Core issues stay with us throughout life and, unless
efectively addressed, they determine our behavior
in destructive ways of which we are usually unaware.
DREAMS and DREAM
SYMBOLS