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    Sigmund

    Freud
    “A man should not strive to
    eliminate his complexes but to get
    into accord with them: they are
    legitimately what directs his
    conduct in the world.”
    Biography
     Born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, which
    is now Pribor, in Czech Republic
     He had two half-brothers, Emmanuel and Philipp
     His mother was the same age as his half
    brothers. (this would later fuel some of his ideas)
     Freud's father was a Jewish wool merchant
     His family moved to Leipzig, Germany in1859,
    and then settled in Vienna in 1860 where Freud
    remained until 1938.
     He died in London on September 23, 1939.
    Backdrop to his Thought
     Freud himself was very much Freudian his
    father had two sons by a previous marriage,
    Emmanuel and Philip, and the young Freud.
     His masterpiece The Interpretation of Dreams
    originated from his emotional crisis which he
    suffered on the death of his father, and the
    series of dreams to which this gave rise.
     After his fathers death he had mixed feelings
    of love and admirations while having very
    different thoughts of Shame and hate
     Freud did cocaine and lots of it.
    Three components of personality
     Individuals feelings thoughts and behaviors are the result of
    the interaction of the id, the ego, and the superego.
     The Id operates largely according to the pleasure principal
    where by its tow main goals are the seeking of pleasure and
    the avoidance of pain.
     The Ego is a where of reality and operates the reality
    principal, it recognizes what is real and the behaviors have
    consciences and it controls higher mental process of
    reasoning and problem solving
     The Superego contains our are values and social morals.
    They come from the rules of right and wrong from our
    childhood that our parents taught us.
    Defense mechanisms
     When anxiety occurs the mind
    responds by an increase of problem
    solving thinking, seeking rational ways
    of escaping the situation
     Denial, displacement, intellectualization,
    projection rationalization, reaction formation,
    regression and repression, and sublimation.
     Anxiety and tension
     Reality, neurotic, and moral anxiety
    SEX
     Freud had a fixation on sex.
     He developed a theory of how our
    sexuality stats at a very young age and
    develops through various fixations as one
    gets older.
     Many of his theories was based on
    pleasure principle, which was developed
    because of sex.
    Age Name Pleasure source Conflict

    Mouth: sucking, biting, Weaning away from


    0-2 Oral
    swallowing mother's breast

    Anus: defecating or
    2-4 Anal Toilet training
    retaining faeces

    Oedipus (boys),
    4-5 Phallic Genitals
    Electra (girls)

    Sexual urges
    sublimated into
    sports and
    6-puberty Latency hobbies. Same-sex
    friends also help
    avoid sexual
    feelings.

    Physical sexual
    changes reawaken
    repressed needs. Social rules
    puberty onward Genital Direct sexual feelings
    towards others
    lead to sexual
    (http://www.changin
    gratification.
    gminds.org/)
    Freud's other Big Ideas
     Ambivalence- love and admiration mixed
    with very contrasting feelings of shame
    and hate
     Oedipus complex- wishing ones real father
    was dead, because he is a rival for ones
    mother's affections.
     Three levels of awareness; conscious
    mind, pre conscious mind and
    subconscious mind.
    Are His Ideas Relevant?
     Although many of Freud's ideas are
    abstracted and seem very strange, most
    of his ideas and theories are still used to
    determine the human psyche
     The bases of modern psychology is based
    on his theories which make his ideas still
    very relevant today.

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