Psychodynamic Approach
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- Created on: 19-09-19 15:29
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- Psychodynamic (Freud)
- Assumptions
- Unconscious
- Vast storehouse of biological drives that influence our behaviour
- Can also be where traumas are repressed and can be accessed by slip of the tongues (parapaxes)
- Personality Structure
- Id- operates on pleasure principle, gets what it wants, is with us since birth
- Ego- mediator, reality principle, develops at around 2 years of age
- Superego- formed at the end of the phallic stage, morality
- Psychosexual Stages
- Oral (0-1)- focus of the pleasure is the mouth, consequence is oral fixation
- Anal (1-3)- focus of pleasure is anus, expelling faeces, consequence is either anal retentive (perfectionist) or anal repulsive
- Phallic (3-5)- focus of pleasure is genital area, involves Oedipus or Electra complex, consequence is narcissism and reckless
- Oedipus- feelings towards mother, hatred of father, fear of castration
- Electra- opposite to Oedipus, penis envy
- Latency- earlier conflicts are repressed
- Genital- sexual desires become prominent along puberty, the consequence is difficulty forming hetero relationships
- Defence Mechanisms
- Repression- forcing a stressful memory out of the conscious mind
- Denial- refusing reality
- Displacement- transferring feelings from true source onto substitute target
- Unconscious
- Evaluation
- Explanatory Power- remained a dominant force in psych throughout the 20th century and helped explain how childhood experiences can shape who we are
- Case Study- Freud used these (LIttle Hans) to create universal claims which is not possible, and they were subjective
- Untestable Concepts- does not meet falsification as it cannot be proven false due to being 'unconscious'
- Practical Application- helped create psychoanalysis therapy which targets unconscious processes
- Assumptions
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