Module 19: Freudian

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Module 19 Freudian Humanistic Theories(A-E)

• By
• Jelise Kimbrough

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Freuds Life

• Born in Moravia ( now Czechoslovakia)
• He studied in Vienna
• He was severely disturbed at points in his life
  and worked through this problems
• Helped to stop discrimination and he feared
  people with emotional disturbances

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Freud believed that childhood almost totally
determine adult personality.
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The Power of the Unconscious

• The mind is like an iceberg
• 1. The tip is the conscious mind
• a. Everyday thoughts
• 2. The water line is the crossover zone or
  preconscious mind.
• a. Stores memories often needed
• 3. Submerged portion is the unconscious
  mind.
• a. Has harsh memories, fierce desires, secret
  hates to powerful to be handled by the
  conscious mind so it is repressed, yet
  these hidden memories and emotions
  influences almost everything we think,
  do, and feel.
• b. The Freudian slip is the unconscious,
  mind creeping out.

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Here is a picture of an iceberg to help you
imagine it more D
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Life and Death Forces

• Eros is the life drive
• 1. Satisfaction of hunger, thirst, sex,
  self-preservation
• a. Libido- houses psychic energy to keep
  the life drive in motion.
• Thanatos is the death drive
• 1. Freud believes all people carry a
  death wish, which leads to aggressive
  and destructive behavior.

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Role of the Id, the Ego, and the Superego
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IDThe great savage infant

• It demands satisfaction of human needs NOW
• It wants pleasure and wants to avoid pain also

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EGO---Computer-like and in control

• Acts as a moderating force between ids demands
  and the reality of the world around you.
• a. Believes in the reality principle
• b. Tries to provide most pleasure with
  the least pair or consequence

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SUPEREGO--- Your guiding conscience

• Absorbs the social values you learned from your
  parents and other adults.
• This ideal behavior has enforced with rewards,
  punishments, and restriction in their childhood
• The superego demands you practice perfect
  morality---- major conflict with the ID

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Defensive Mechanism

• The ego uses the defense mechanism to convert
  taboo feelings into acceptable behavior.
• 1. Repression
• a. Burying painful and/or disturbing desires
  and memories
• b. They remain alive and influences
  behavior unawares.
• 2. Displacement
• a. Unable to focus your anger on the thing
  that caused it. You strike out at other
  less treating people or objects
• 3. Sublimination
• a. Detour powerful, frustrating drives into
  socially useful behavior

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Defense Mechanisms (cont)

• 4. Projection
• a. Ego can cope more easily with tension if
  it originates in the outside world
• 5. Regression
• a. When faced with frustration or stress
  some use anxiety releasing behavior
  that worked as a kid
• 6. Reaction Formation
• a. unconscious converts a bitter feeling of
  rage into its opposite to better deal
  with the anger
• 7. Rationalization
• a. Process of finding reason or excuses for
  thoughts, feelings, or action that it
  measures up to your expectations of
  yourself.

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Psychosexual Development
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STAGE 1 Oral Stage (1st year)

• Pleasures centers around the mouth stimulation
• Sucking, eating, drinking, and licking
• Babies without enough food equals possessive
  greedy adults
• Babies who is allowed to bite equals destructive
  grown up
• Many later behaviors are subs for pleasures of
  oral stages ( example gum chewing and pipe
  smoking)
• Fixation occurs from unresolved conflicts at
  this stage equals physical growth but emotional
  dependency on behaviors that worked in this
  crucial stage.

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STAGE 2 Anal Stage (2nd and 3rd year)

• Child finds pleasures in daily bowel movement
• Experience with need to regulate instinctive and
  impulsive behavior
• Harsh overly strict toilet training result in
  retentive, stingy, stubborn adults and/or
  rebellious, destructive, disorderly ones
• To eliminate problems, potty-training should be
  low pressure and natural

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STAGE 3 Phallic Stage (4th- 6th year)

• Pleasures center in genitals
• Engage in sex play at this age Oedipus Complex
  unconscious sexual attraction for parent of
  opposite sex
• Feelings resolve themselves with growth
• Castration Complex boy feels father will punish
  his oedipal complex by cutting off his penis
• Penis envy girl feel lack of something important
  males have
• Torn by guilt and sex desires, kids repress
  oedipal feelings and identify with same sex
  parent
• Phallic stage helps resolve oedipal conflict by
  building in social moral values related to sex
  roles

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STAGE 4 Latency Period (6th puberty
onset)STAGE 5 Genital Stage (puberty
adult)

• Stage 4
• Most sexual feelings are repressed
• Company of same sex is preferred and lots of
  energy is put into school, sports, hobbies, and
  play activities
• Stage 5
• Teens begin to explore pleasures of genuine love
• Develop career interest, join peer groups, debate
  desirability of marriage and kids of their own
• Provide firm foundation for achieving productive,
  satisfying personal relationships
• If you dont work through stages people are
  driven by unconscious driven by unconscious
  forces they can only vaguely q.

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THE END D (finally huh lol)