Freud Notes

• Sigmund Freud and Psych
  • 1856-1939
  • founder of psychoanalysis
  • pioneered principle tools in psychoanalysis: "dream analysis" and "free association" - the spontaneous verbilization of thoughts.

I. Freud's Theories

• Libido
  • instinctual drives, especially libido (sex drive) are governed by human behavior.
  • guilt from the repression of instinctual urges dominates the unconcious life of human beings.
  • most psychic disorders are the result of sexual trauma stemming from the child's unconcious attachment to the parent of the opposite sex. (Oedipus/Electra Complex).
  • Freud's theories shocked the world with his analysis of infant sexuality and more generally with his claim that the psychic lives of human beings are formed…