Sigmund Freud

Freud's principal tools:

- Dream analysis - "Free association" - the spontaneous verbalization of thoughts

This model pictures the psyche as consisting of three parts:

- the id - the ego - and the superego

- Freud's model of the unconscious challenged the supremacy of reason itself - The model challenged the long-standing belief that reason was the fundamental monitor of human behavior.

- By bringing attention to the central place of erotic desire in human life, his writings irrevocably altered popular attitudes toward human sexuality

- Of all his discoveries, Freud considered his research on dream analysis the most important. - The Interpretation of Dreams is published in 1900.

- Freud defends the significance of his dreams in deciphering the unconscious life of the individual.

The Freudian Model of the Psyche

- Freud proposed a theoretical model to describe the activities of the human mind - Most of it is unconscious thinking

Freud shocked the world with his analysis of infant sexuality and

his claim that the psychic lives of human beings were formed by the time they were five years old.

The Oedipal Complex

- Freud theorized that instinctual drives, especially the libido, or sex drives, governed human behavior - Freud argued that most psychic disorders were the result of sexual traumas stemming from the child's unconscious attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and jealousy of the parent of the same sex

- Nobody other than Freud had a bigger influence on our perception of ourselves - Freud was the first to map the geography of the psyche

- His model would resonate through the arts of the twentieth century - literature, theater, music, visual arts, and film. - Freud's theories suggested that the conscious self was only a small part of one's psychical life.

The ID

- The id is the seat of all human instincts and the source of all physical desires, including nourishment and sexual satisfaction - The id seeks fulfillment in accordance with the pleasure principal - The id is the compelling force of the unconscious realm - To associate it with Nietzsche, the id would be Dionysian

- Developed psychoanalysis, a systematic procedure for treating emotional illnesses

- The method brought repressed desires to the conscious level to reveal the sources of emotional disturbance

Sublimation

- The taking of feelings and channeling them into a socially acceptable form - Behind every good joke there's somewhat of a truth

- In Freud's view, dreams are all forms of wish fulfillment

- attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether somethings was recent or from the recesses of the past.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis,

a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.