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PSY101 Class Notes: October 24, 2006, Video “Freud Under Analysis”

A Theory
Sigmund Freud – “Psychoanalysis” A Method

The Topography of the mind


 Conscious
 Preconscious
 Unconscious

The Intrapsychic System


 Superego – Social/Moral
 Ego “I” – Intellectual
 Id “it”- biological

Free Association: Yes  Clinical/ Case Study Methods


Transference
Dreams
Parapraxis (“Freudian Slips”) Yes  Observational Method
Humor
Neurotic Symptoms ? Experimental Method

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy: Face to Face

Interpretations of Dreams
1. Mutative Interpretaitons
2. Developmental Interpretations

Parapraxis (“Freudian Slips”) Acidenteally saying things we didn’t mean


to say
Humor
Neurotic Symptoms (least preferred)
Symptopm Complex
Neurosis=emotional disorder or Disturbance Anxiety

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