PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE Collin College心理动力学视角科林学院.pptVIP

Psychodynamic Perspective In one of his Introductory Lectures, Freud told the following story: I was once a guest of a young married couple and heard the young woman laughingly describe her latest experience. The day after her return from her honeymoon she had gone shopping with her unmarried younger sister while her husband went to his business. Suddenly she noticed a gentleman on the other side of the street, and nudging her sister had cried: “Look, there goes Herr L.” She had forgotten that this gentleman had been her husband for some weeks. I shuddered as I heard the story, but I did not dare to draw the inference. The little incident only occurred to my mind some years later when the marriage had come to a most unhappy end. Sigmund Freud Main Point Id, Ego, Superego Personality Development What is at stake in all these attacks?...The real object of attack—for which Freud is only a stalking-horse—is the very idea that humans have unconscious motivation. A battle may be fought over Freud, but the war is over our culture’s image of the human soul. Are we to see humans as having depth—as complex psychological organisms who generate layers of meaning which lie beneath the surface of their own understanding? Or are we to take ourselves as transparent to ourselves? Jonathan Lear, Open Minded The principal Freudian concept on which everything turns holds that mental illness is a result of defense against anxiety. Peter Madison Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Father of Psychoanalytic Theory Psychodynamic Theory focuses on the inner person Defined: Much of behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts of which a person has little awareness or control. They stem from one’s childhood and influence behavior throughout the lifespan. Unconscious forces act to determine both: Personality Behavior Part of everyone’s personality. We are unaware of it. Though it strongly influences our behavior. C