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Freud (Chapter 11)

Reminder:Freud is not respected within the psychological community. Many of his ideas are not falsifiable. The most accepted is the idea about the unconscious.

• Sigmund Freud was born in Austria in 1856. He died in England in 1939 (he was Jewish and so left Austria because of the Nazis). He was a medical doctor, not a psychologist. No such degree existed.
• Freud was the first to systematically study and theorize the workings of the unconscious mind in the manner that we associate with modern psychology.
• The unconscious id contains our most primitive drives or urges
  • Wants instant gratification regardless of consequences
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• the ego and superego develop to control the id.
  • They are developed through interactions with ones parents and others within the environment of the child
• The Super Ego is developed by a child learning the social rules and what is right from wrong; our conscience
• The Ego is the rational part of our personality.
  • Freud considered this to be the self that others saw
  • The ego helps the id satisfy its desires in a realistic way.
• Imbalances can lead to neurosis (according to frued)

Psychosexual Development

In each psychosexual stage of development, the child’s pleasure-seeking urges, coming from the id, are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone. The stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital