Sigmund Freud May September 1939 By: Kelly and Nicole

Accomplishments - Freud's most recognized accomplishments were his development of psychoanalysis and his ideas about the three divisions of the unconscious: Id, Ego, and Superego, and the Oedipus Complex. - Id, Ego and Superego were based upon the unconscious wants of an individual. Id is acts according the pleasure principal. You want something, and you take it. Ego acts upon the reality principal. You want something, but you can't have it, so you settle for something else. And Super ego, which works based on morals and balances out the Id and Ego. - The Oedipus Complex is based upon Freud's theories that all children have the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex. Freud believe that everyone wanted to have sex with the parent of the opposite sex, as he wanted to have sex with his mother.

Dream Analysis - Sigmund Freud believed that dreams were the spy holes into our unconscious. Fears, desires and emotions that we as humans suppress in our day to day life. Freud based his dream theory on his work with Id, ego and superego. - According to Freud dreams are all the emotions thoughts and desires that are repressed during our lives that end up coming out in our dreams. - He thought that most were not aware of what their dreams were trying to say because they are encoded to disguise their true meaning, and that the unconscious expresses itself in a symbolic language. - Freud believed that the reason you struggle to remember your dreams, is because the superego is at work, and that It's doing it's job by protecting your conscious mind from the disturbing images and urges made by the unconscious.

- Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic method of psychiatry. - Freud is famous for his theories of the unconscious mind, the defense mechanism of repression, for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, and for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient. - Freud is also well known for his tendencies to relate everything to sex and sexual desires, therapeutic techniques, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. - According to Freud a variety of normal situations and common items mean that a person is dreaming or having sexual desires that relate to the male or female genitalia. If one if to dream about a stair case Freud believed it to symbolize sex. if a person was dreaming about suit cases, ovens, dressers etc. that would symbolize female genitalia. If they were dreaming of tree trunks, or balloons that would be related to male genitalia.

Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development Sigmund Freud categorized his theory of psychosexual stages into five stages; The oral stage, The anal stage, The phallic stage, the latency period and the genital stage. The oral stage begins at birth, When the child, preoccupies himself with nursing and the pleasure of sucking and accepting things into the mouth. The child who isn't being nursed as much as he would like begins to gain envy, suspicion and sarcasm. The overindulged child, whose nursing urges were always satisfied, is optimistic, gullible, and is full of admiration for others around him. The anal stage At one and one-half years, the child enters the anal stage. According to Freud toilet training causes a child to gain an obsession with the anus and with the retention or expulsion of the feces. According to Freud the way a child is toilet trained permanently affects the individual propensities to possession and attitudes towards authority. The Phallic Stage In this stage, the child's erogenous zone is the genital region. As the child becomes more interested in his genitals, and in the genitals of others, conflict arises. The conflict involves the child's unconscious desire to possess the opposite-sexed parent and to eliminate the same-sexed one. Latency Period The resolution of the phallic stage leads to the latency period, in which the sexual drive is dormant. The Genital Stage In the genital stage, the child's energy once again focuses on his genitals, and his interests turn to heterosexual relationships. According to Freud the less energy the child has left invested in one of the psychosexual developments, the greater his capacity will be to develop normal relationships with the opposite sex. If, however, he remains fixated, on a stage, particularly on the phallic stage, his development will be troubled.

According to Freud the process of the latent content being transformed into manifest content, otherwise known as "dream work". Dream work can disguise the latent material in four ways; 1: Condensation: Two or more latent thoughts are combined to make up one manifest dream image or situation. 2: Displacement: Instead of directing the emotion or desire toward the intended person or object it is transferred onto a meaningless / unrelated object in the manifest dream. 3: Symbolism: Where complex or vague concepts are converted into a dream image. For this, the mind may use the image of a similar sounding (more recognizable) word instead or use a similar looking less intrusive object. According to Freud, dream symbols are for the most part sexual in meaning thus many dreams (but not all) have a sexual correlation.

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