Psychoanalytic approach
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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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