2. Psychoanalysis Party Game
Group yourselves into groups of sixes
Each person take six sheets of paper

3. Personality is…
Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
It is what makes us unique

4. Psychoanalytic Humanistic
Childhood sexuality and unconscious drive personality
Humanistic
Inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment drive personality
Today – focus on biological roots, nurture of environment, self-serving bias, and cultural influences

5. Psychoanalysis – NOTHING IS ACCIDENTAL
Freud
Hypnosis (lacked something, think testing…)
Free association
Personality is – what arises from conflict between impulse and restraint
What does that mean?

6. Where else did we talk about Freud this year?

7. Dreams Manifest content Latent content
How do these things come together to explain the psychoanalytic theory of dreams?

8. So how do we break into our unconscious? What is our unconscious?

9. Just for reference if you need it…

10. So let’s go back to his definition of personality again
Arises from the conflict between impulse and restraint
Which is the biological function, which is the social contrast?

11. Psychoanalytical Personality Development
Freudian stages
(id dominated)
Psychosexual phases thru erogenous zones

12. Psychosexual Stages Chart

13. Freud Applications
Oedipus or Electra Complexes

14. What is psychoanalytic anxiety?
What role does the Ego play in anxiety?
Unresolved conflicts = fixation on a psychosexual phase

15. Identification If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Coping mechanisms with threatening feelings of competition with their same-sex parent by identifying with that parent
Which psychosexual stage would this be a part of?

16. Defense Mechanisms – reduce/redirect anxiety by distorting reality
Repression
Underlies ALL OTHER DM’S
Banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts from consciousness
Seen thru dreams and slips of the tongue
Regression
When faced with anxiety, retreats to infantile stage
Homesick from camp/college
Thumb sucking
Reaction formation
Ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into opposites
I hate him/her because I love him/her.
Projection
Disguise your own threatening impulse
She or he doesn’t trust me = I don’t trust myself
Rationalization
Self-justifying actions
“Social drinkers”
Displacement
Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses towards a less threatening object
Everyday of your teenage life…
Denial
S/he would never cheat on me…
It’s going to be different this time…
Sublimation
Rechannel unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities
Socially adaptive
Leonardo and Madonna paintings

17. Neo-Freudians Took basic ideas and Focused more on consciousness
Discussed items outside of sex and aggression
Psychodynamic = all about the unconscious based on but outside of Freudian stages and/or id, ego, superego
Psychoanalytic = Freud

18. Alfred Adler
Childhood is important, focus on social not sexual tensions
Inferiority complex
Fictional finalism
The ends justify the means
all men created equal
Birth order studies

19. 3 ways we relate to others (toward, away, against) Womb envy
PRONOUNCED HORN-EYE
Basic anxiety studies
3 ways we relate to others (toward, away, against)
Womb envy
Childhood anxiety caused by dependent child’s helplessness
Triggers desire for love and security
Believed Freud to be SUPER biased

20. Carl Jung Less emphasis on social, more on repression
Archetypes (self, shadow)
Collective unconscious
Why are people spiritual?
Who do you mourn more and why?
Victims of Sandy Hook?
Collateral damage of 22 victims in Afghanistan?

21. Two more… Nancy Chodorow: Matina Horner:
Male and female identification with the mother
Matina Horner:
Women’s fear of success
Success phobia – fear of discovering true potential

22. Assessing the unconscious
Projective tests – what does it mean to project?
TAT: Thematic Apperception Test
Rorschach Inkblot

24. Why can’t I trust my husband?

26. Rorschach Inkblot Highly subjective
Today used as an icebreaker in psychoanalysis
Inner feelings or mindset linked to interpretation of inkblot

27. Criticisms of Freud/Psychoanalysis
Freud and Ford
But!
Where’s the social aspect?
Cultural aspect?
Evolutionary traits?
Loftus studies and repression vs. false memory
Can you actively forget?

28. Where is Freud correct? We have limited access to our minds
The unconscious goes into…
Two track mind
Schemas
Priming
Split brain
Parallel processing
Implicit memories
Emotions before analysis of event
Self concept and stereotypes
Defense mechanisms and false consensus effects

29. Conclusion WE DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST ANXIETY Application
How do we go about doing that? I don’t know… ask Freud.
Application
Terror management theory

30. What is going through your mind?

31. Terror Management Theory
People explore emotions and have certain behavioral responses when dealing with impending death