PSYCHOANALYSIS -

OVERVIEW
Psychoanalytic Concepts
Dont take it out on me!
DISPLACEMENT (transferring anger
with one person on to another person)
SIBLING RIVALRY
INFERIORITY COMPLEXES
DEFENSE MECHANISMS
 Individual
psychologic
al history:
- Childhood Individual
experiences human World
- Adolescent and beings
-Adult behavior
patterns
and Classical Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
 the goal of

Psychoanalysis

is to resolve our

Psychological problems

Disorders/ Dysfunctions
 THE UNCONSCIOUS

You cant always get what you

want

You cant always get what you

want but you get what you need

You cant always get what you

consciously want but you get
what you unconsciously need
 HUMAN BEINGS

DESIRES
FEARS
UNCONSCIOUS
NEEDS
CONFLICTS
AND EMOTIONS WOUNDS
EXPERIENCES FEARS
PAINFUL
THE
UNCONSCIO
US
UNRESOLVED GUILTY DESIRES
CONFLICTS
 Comes into being
in childhood
through THE
A
REPRESSION,
DYNAMIC THE
ENTITY that EXPUNGING THE
engages us at UNCONSCIOUS
from
the deepest level
consciousness of
of our being
these unhappy
psychological
events
 Acknowledgement
We need to acknowledge to ourselves
the true causes of our
- repressed wounds
- fears
- guilty desires
- unresolved conflicts (e.g. longing for
the love of the alcoholic father/mate)
 Family
it is very important in psychoanalytic theory
we are each a product of the role we are given in
the family-complex
the birth of the unconscious lies in the way we
perceive our place in the family:
Im the failure
Im the perfect child;
I must always come in second to my
brother
Im unlovable
Im responsible for my parents problems.
 Sibling
rivalry
(competition
Castratio Penis with siblings
n anxiety envy for the
attention and
afection of
parents)
Oedipal conflict
Old style Freudian theory:
 Dis-
placemen Avoidanc
Projectio t e
n Denial Selective
is taking is staying memory
is ascribing away from is
it out on Selective
our fear, people or believing is modifying
problem, or someone our perceptio
situations that the
guilty desire or memories n
that are
to someone something problem so that we
liable to is hearing
else and less doesnt dont
make us and seeing
then threatenin anxious exist or feel only what
condemning the overwhelme
g than the by stirring we
him or d by them
person up some unpleasant feel we can
her for it, in or forgetting
order to who unconscious incident handle
painful
deny that we i.e., never
caused our events
have it repressed happened
fear, hurt, entirely)
ourselves. experience
frustration, or emotion
or anger
which are kept in the unconscious
the contents of our unconscious
DEFENSES
 Regression
the most complex Defense

temporary return to a former psychological

state, which is not just imagined but relived;
a return either to a painful or a pleasant
experience
it carries our thoughts away from some
present difficulty
it carries with it the opportunity for active
reversal, the acknowledgment and working
through of repressed experiences and
emotions
 Fear of intimacy
fear of emotional involvement with
another human being
we protect ourselves from the painful
past experiences that intimate
relationships inevitably dredge up
Defense breaks down. Anxiety sets in.

Anxiety reveals core issues:

Fear of intimacy

Fear of abandonment

Fear of betrayal

Low self-esteem

Insecure or unstable sense of self

Oedipal fixation
 Core issues define our being in
fundamental ways
Fear of intimacy can function as both a defense and
a core issue
A given core issue can result from another core issue
or can cause the emergence of another core issue.
They do not consist of occasional negative feelings,
such as passing episodes of insecurity or low self-
image.
Core issues stay with us throughout life and, unless
efectively addressed, they determine our behavior
in destructive ways of which we are usually unaware.
 DREAMS and DREAM
SYMBOLS

when we sleep, it is believed that our

defenses do not operate in the same
manner they do when we are awake;
during sleep, the unconscious is free to
express itself, and it does so in our
dreams;
 DREAMS and their
MESSAGES
We use a safe person,
Dream event, or object as a
displacem stand in to represent
ent a more threatening
person, event, or
object.
A single dream image
Condensat or event is used to
represent more than
ion one unconscious wound
or conflict.
(what they
mean)
their are dreams
Actual
imagery is manifest
dreams
dreams content
latent
content
content
Manifest content vs. Latent
 Male and Female imagery
PHALLIC
If I dream that I am holding my
SYMBOLS friend at gunpoint, I might be
(towers, rockets, expressing unconscious sexual
guns, arrows, aggression toward that friend or
toward someone else for whom
swords, and the that friend is a safe stand-in.
like)
FEMALE
IMAGERY
I dream I am trapped or lost in
(caves, rooms, a small, dark room, I might be
walled-in expressing an unconscious fear
of my mothers control over me
gardens, cups, or or an unconscious fear that I
enclosures and have never completely matured
containers of any as a human being.
kind.
The meaning of DEATH