Psychoanalytic approach

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  • Created on: 23-01-18 17:28

Psychoanalytic theory

  • Motivated by basic biological instincts, behaviour is goal directed, unconscious motivation 

Biological perspectives

  • Basic human motivation is sex
  • Freud believed everything humans do is understood as manifestations of life and death instincts
  • libido (life), thanatos (death) 

Freud's view of unconscious mind 

  • Conscious mind - thoughts, perception 
  • Preconscious - memories, knowledge
  • Unconscious - fears, irrational wishes, unacceptable sexual desires, selfish needs, immoral urges, shameful experiences

Freud's tripartite theory of mind

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