The Role of the Unconscious
Psychology - Psychodynamic Approach - Key Features - The Role of the Unconscious
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- The Role of the Unconscious
- Reservoir for disturbing memories from childhood
- Kept from consciousness to allow the adult to function properly
- Reservoir for biological instincts and drives (food, drink, sex) that would be disturbing if they became conscious
- Free Association - Based on the cathartic method 'thinking about the unconscious'
- Dream Analysis - A dream is a disguise for fulfilment of a repressed wish
- Slips of the tongue - Mistakes which reveals the true unconscious(Fraudian)
- Transference - When the unconscious becomes conscious
- Issues of this are: can be miss interpreted, can't generalise, over analyse dreams
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