...The Interpretation of the Unconscious Mind You’re being chased by a monster down the hallway of your childhood home. The hallway goes on forever and it feels like you’ve been running for miles. Every time it seems like the monster is about to catch it’s dinner (you), all of a sudden you get that tiny extra burst of speed to just escape his grasps. With no resolution in sight, you make a break for the nearest door. When you open the door it’s your dead grandmother taking a bath. What!? These are the kind of silly and seemingly unexplainable instances that occur in our unconscious sleep every night when we go to bed. Contrary to what you may think, these ridiculous dreams that almost resemble cartoons more than real life, do actually have a significant impact on our emotional state, and for the most part are based on our own anxieties, desires, and memories. In this essay I’m going to attempt to analyze a current dream I’ve had and interpret the meaning and origin of this dream using the sources available to me. I’m standing on a steep grass hill, looking out over a shallow and narrow valley that appears to have been cut of the landscape like a spoon would do to a tub of ice cream. Inside this crevice is a highway I’ve never seen before, with cars zooming down the road at high speeds. Above the highway is an overpassing bridge with more fast and noisy cars. On the opposite side of this speedway that I’m standing along is my beloved dog, who I’ve raised since he was six weeks...
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...Our presentation was about the movie Birdsong which originally a book by Sebastian Faulks. It the movie it was shown that Stephen has been undergoing many flashbacks that made him survived his hardships through the war. The theme, “The importance of memory to sustain us through hardships” covers some of the Freudian concepts that intertwines with the main theme, “The unconscious mind is greater than the conscious mind.” Freud explains that the conscious level is where the realization of a person at a certain moment or time, and also the awareness of the surroundings. The unconscious part is the person’s involuntary realizations and wishes that are not accessible, that holds one’s hopes, urges, and memories that is outside his/her awareness (McLeod). The movie,...
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...PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT WEEK 7 DUE DATE: 12/16/2012 1. Do you believe that people have an unconscious mind? If so, how does it affect thoughts, feelings, and behavior? Yes I do believe that people have an unconscious mind. The unconscious mind might be defined as part of the mind gives rise to a collection of mental occurrences that manifest in our mind but which are not aware of at the time of their occurrences. These occurrences include unconscious feelings, unconscious or automatic skills, unnoticed perceptions, unconscious thoughts, unconscious habits and automatic reactions, secret phobias and hidden desires. It also controls certain roles in our body like our breathing and our heart function. A familiar example of the unconscious mind is the phenomenon where one thinks about some problem, cannot find a solution but wakes up one morning with a new idea that unlocks the problem. 2. Do you believe that you are free of prejudice? After reading this chapter, which of the many factors that cause prejudice do you think is most important to change? No. I don’t think anyone is. It is a human nature , even though is not always useful to us to be judgmental to look down on others, as if we are so much better, it only creates division between people. I think I am less prejudice that some because of the way my parents raised me. I do not remember my parents ever saying a word against another race or nationality. I tried not to pass judgment or any kind of assumptions...
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...of Freudian dream theory and will go on to describe the various components of personality structure and the unconscious from a psychodynamic perspective. This essay will analyse one of my personal dreams using Freud’s dream analysis theory and conclude with a critical reflection on the application of his theory as it relates to my dream. When Freud famously referred to dreams as being the ‘royal road to the unconscious’, he meant that dreams were a way in which to access the unconscious mind. Dream analysis in psychoanalysis is the process used to explore the role dreams play in the unconscious (Corey, 2005). The purpose of Freud’s theory of dream analysis is to gain better access to the unconscious in order to bring it into the conscious (Day, 2008). Freud believed that the mind represses painful events that the conscious does not want to remember due to the pain and anxiety they cause (Scharf, 2008). These repressed desires and motivations are freed through dreams which are a direct connection to the unconscious. Freud saw the unconscious as sexual and instinctual in nature and the dream as a disguised unfulfilled wish (Welsh, 1994). To better understand the dynamics between the conscious and the unconscious parts of the mind, Freud (1994) developed the structural model of the psyche which he called “the psychic apparatus”. Freud proposed that the part of the mind that structures behaviour and decisions is composed of three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego; all developing...
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...founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight”. The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious. Psychoanalysis is commonly used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. It is only having a cathartic (i.e. healing) experience can the person be helped and "cured". Psychoanalysis Assumptions · Psychoanalytic psychologists see psychological problems as rooted in the unconscious mind. · Manifest symptoms are caused by latent (hidden) disturbances. · Typical causes include unresolved issues during development or repressed trauma. · Treatment focuses on bringing the repressed conflict to consciousness, where the client can deal with it. How can we understand the unconscious mind? freud's couch Remember, psychoanalysis is a therapy as well as a Freudian theory. In psychoanalysis (therapy) Freud would have a patient lie on a couch to relax, and he would sit behind them taking notes while they told him about their dreams and childhood memories. Psychoanalysis would be a lengthy process, involving many sessions with the psychoanalyst. Due to the nature of defense mechanisms and the inaccessibility of the deterministic forces operating in the unconscious, psychoanalysis in its classic form is a lengthy process often involving 2 to 5 sessions per week for several...
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...Unit 8 Exercise 1 Ja’Martay Bentley GE375 Tami Gary May 16, 2016 Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective emphasized unconscious and unresolved past conflicts (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). Freud believed the psyche (mind) contained three levels of consciousness: conscious, preconscious, and the unconscious (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). Conscious is the thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is remembering (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). Preconscious are thoughts or motives that are just beneath the surface of awareness and can be easily brought to the mind (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). The unconsciousness are thoughts and motives that lie beyond a person’s normal awareness, which still exert great influence (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). Freud believed that most psychological disorders originate from repressed memories and instincts (sexual and aggressive) that are hidden in the unconscious (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). Freud also believed that personality was composed of three mental structures: id, ego, and superego (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). The id is totally unconscious and serves as a reservoir of mental energy (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). The id is made up of innate, biological instincts and urges. It is immature, impulsive, and irrational (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). The id wants what it wants and when it wants it – pleasure principle (Carpenter & Huffman, 2011). As a child grows older, the ego develops (Carpenter...
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...Some commentators have referred to Sigmund Freud as “Psychology’s man of genius”. Evaluate this claim, with reference to his work and impact on the discipline of Psychology. Sigmund Freud analyzed the human mind to a greater extent than did any other scientist who came before him. His contribution to psychology is enormous and his work has influenced not only areas concentrated around psychology but also literature, art and even the manner in which parents raise their children. Even though much of his work is refereed to as a ‘fallacy’, his findings remain relevant and applicable to this day. Freud hypothesized that personality emerged through a series of stages of psychosexual development, namely the oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stage. He argued that the Oral stage occurs from birth until the age of two during which the child is focused on oral pleasures e.g. sucking, and if it receives too much or too little gratification, it can result in an oral personality evidenced later in life through preoccupation with oral acts such as a tendency to smoke, chew gum excessively, bite nails etc. Freud believed that these people would then have a personality that is over dependent on others and naïve. The Anal stage was said to occur from the age of two to four and Freud believed that during this stage the pleasure source arose from retaining or eliminating feces. The effects of anal fixation were also believed to become evident later in life. Those who were retentive, were...
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...Book Report: Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud Yvette R. Gibbs Grand Canyon University: Personality Psychology June 27, 2014 Dream Psychology Chapter Summaries Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a physiologist, medicinal physician, psychologist, and instrumental intellectual of the 1900’s. Freud said dreams are windows into our unconscious mind where the angsts, longings, and feelings exist that we stifle in some type or another to conceal from conscious thought. In other words, we do not want to realize them so they get constrained into the alcoves of the subconscious. Thus, with respect to the concept of wish- fulfilment and dreaming, we desire that the thing that concerns us in the subconscious, expressed by means of the dreams. Consequently, on this basis, both “undesirable” and “positive” (things we wish do happen) dreams are the result of wish-fulfilment. Chapter I: Dreams Have a Meaning Freud was a true believer that all dreams had some meaning. Dreams are our unconscious feelings. Whether good or bad thoughts we have and do not act on manifest into our dreams; they are usually indirect clues. Freud (1920) states the basis on “a peculiar state of psychical activity”. Some spectators recognize the dream may be capable of exceptional successes in selected areas (e.g. Memory) (Freud, 1920). Some medical writers believe that dreams are merely stimuli from the body; contrary to their beliefs, dreams do have some meaning (Freud, 1920). Reading one’s...
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...Carl Jung has famous theory which is “Collective Unconscious”. It is existing in the depths of a person’s unconscious mind, and it is inborn universal unconscious. From his theory, he said that human being also has “archetype” which is meaning for “image pattern”. People have archetype, and it is using for our common understanding between people. For example, when we see a clay figure embracing a plump body shape woman, we say that it looks like mother, because we are imaging for “Mother’s Archetype”, on the other hand, when we image of a wise man who teaches strictly, you might be imaging about father. In this case we are based on “Father’s Archetype”. How about movie characters? I think that the most popular kinds of archetype of character...
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...with others(1). For centuries great minds such as, Sigmund Freud, Erick Erickson, Carl Jung, and Alfred Alder have explored and experimented their theory’s against human behavior. In this paper we will discuss the influences of frueds work and how his prodecssor viewpoints expanded his thougts into the present view point of todays culture. Dr. Sigmund Freud “Sigmund Freud was one of the trailblazers of modern-day psychology. As the originator of Psychoanalysis, Freud distinguished himself as an intellectual giant. He pioneered new techniques for understanding human behavior, and his efforts resulted in the most comprehensive theory of personality and psychotherapy ever developed”(3). “Dr. Sigmund Freud explored the human mind more thoroughly than any other who became before him. His contributions to psychology are vast. Freud was one of the most influential people of the twentieth century and his enduring legacy has influenced not only psychology, but art, literature and even the way people bring up their children”(2). Dr. Freud’s theories became highly influential to the field of pyschoanlysis. His work was unparrel and his theories have foreve changed physconlaues to this very day. “Freud (1900, 1905) developed a topographical model of the mind, whereby he described the features of mind’s structure and function. In this model the conscious mind (everything we are aware of) is seen as the tip of the iceberg, with the unconscious mind a repository of a ‘cauldron’ of primitive...
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...Psychodynamic Theories Jayme Terrigno PSY/405 October 6, 2014 Patti Tolar Psychodynamic Theories According to "Good Therapy" (2014), “The psychological interpretation of mental and emotional processes—is rooted in traditional psychoanalysis and draws from object relations, ego psychology, and self psychology” (para. 1). Psychodynamic theories draw most of their information from the idea of the unconscious, especially in the development of early childhood. This paper will describe personality, discuss the mail tenets of the theories presented, discuss how each theory applies to personality and behavior, and discusses the strengths and limitations of each theory. The degree to which individual humans vary from one another, both physically and psychologically, is quite astonishing and somewhat unique among species (Feist, Feist, & Roberts 2013). Personality id the physical characteristics of a person and how it reflects toward others. Personality is the thoughts and feelings that each person holds and shows to others. It is collection of a person, but these pieces of each person tend to remain the unchanged through the years. Psychodynamic theory was developed by a Sigmund Freud, a well-known theorist, and in his own words, scientist. Sigmund Freud began to combine philosophical speculations with a primitive scientific method. As a neurologist trained in science, Freud began to listen to his patients to find out what...
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...which team “B” will discuss. Sigmund Freud considered being the father of psychoanalysis. The main theory that Freud focused the majority of his research was the psychoanalytic theory of learning. Freud is most known for his research and contribution in this field of therapy. Freud is of the first Westerners to recognize and work with the unconscious processes. Psychoanalysis is educational process in which unconscious conflicts are consciously confronted. Freud’s theory is based on the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Freud was not the one who invented it, but he was responsible for making it highly popular in the psychoanalytic field of research. Freud applied the deterministic principles systematically to the sphere of the mental, and to hold the broad spectrum of human behavior is explicable on in the terms of the mental processes that determine it. The conscious mind occurs when he is aware and alert of his actions at that particular time, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings. Freud called his actions in the conscious mind, preconscious, which is called available memory. The unconscious mind is at the time when he is...
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...construction of theories regarding the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes. It is a method of learning the mind, and treating emotional & mental disorders erected from investigating and revealing the role of the unconscious mind. This type of therapy was started by Sigmund Freud. This in which dream analysis, free association, and examination of opposition and transference are used to research blocked or unconscious urges, anxieties, and internal struggles. This is also called psychoanalytic therapy to others. In 1896, aged forty, Freud published Heredity and the Etiology of the Neuroses, in which the term “psychoanalysis” initially came about. After Freud’s father’s death in 1896, Freud began to pay certain attention to the abundant making of dreams and anxieties which came upon his mourning. In 1897 he devoted himself to an intense and rigorous self-analysis. When he was forty four years of age he described the mental apparatus, on the basis of a certain number of processes or systems, and the relationships between them. His publication of “The Interpretation of Dreams” increasingly conveyed him on to fame. Freud was then joined by equals in this field whom he trained in psychoanalysis. These followers of his explored, and tested in the farthest grasps of the human psyche. All of this allowed Freud to speed up the expansion & development of his psychoanalysis theories. Freud believed that the human mind was composed of three elements: “the id, the ego, and the...
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...Write a summary of 350-700 words identifying the contributions of Freud, Jung, and Rogers. The contribution of Freud, Jung, and Roger identifies the human behavior and mental process that have followed us throughout the years. Such contributions are divided into a three legged stool which consist of cognitive therapy, the behaviorist and the science of the mind. First and foremost one of the most controversial and influential psychodynamic theorists Sigmund Freud was known for his thorough studies and analysis of the central nervous system. Sigmund Freud mainly emphasized on the unconscious and conscious mind. After several years of intense studying and observations he concluded that the mental life is different from the views of other theorists. Freud theorized that one personality is formed into three structures of personality; the ID, the ego, the superego. Carl Jung embraced many of Freud’s beliefs. He believed that the unconscious consists of two apparent components; the personal unconscious, which consist of an individual repressed thoughts, forgotten experience and undeveloped ideas. The collective unconscious focuses on the memories and behavior patterns that originated from previous generations. He believed that people exhibit their attitudes from two types; introverts and extroverts. Extroverts focus on the external world and events going on around them in oppose to introvert which is mainly more concerned with their own private worlds. Rogers was known for his...
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...P1: Behaviourist Approach. An introduction into this perspective is that it studies how conditioning, reinforcement and social learning influence behaviour. It does this through laboratory experiments and observations. In witch they use animals and humans. It is a scientific approach to measure behaviour and investigate how behaviour is learned. They argue that the environment shapes behaviour. Also argued that genetics and cognition are deemed as unimportant in determining behaviours. There are three main theories to this perspective which are: Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Social learning. Classical conditioning: Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) was working with dogs to investigate their digestive systems; he noticed that one dog began to salivate when Pavlov assistant entered the room with food. Pavlov thought the dog had learned to associate the assistant with food. This meaning food automatically lead to response of salivation, this is called an unconditioned response. The food was the unconditioned stimulus. As the production of saliva was automatic and not learnt. With this, an unconditioned stimulus leads to an unconditioned response. Pavlov then introduced a bell at feeding time, the bell was a conditioned response as the dog then produced saliva on the bell ringing as the dog associated the bell with feeding time. This happened over several trails and then the dog learned this. Eventually it began to salivate when only the bell was rung and no food was...
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