Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis

• Psychoanalysis is a type of therapy that aims to release pent-up or repressed emotions and memories in or to lead the client to catharsis.
• Three Layer of layers of mind

  • Conscious
  • Preconscious
  • Unconscious
• Concious - this is where our current thoughts, feelings, and focus live
• Preconscious - the home of everything we can recall or retrievesfrom our memory
• Unconscious - the deepest part level of our minds reside a repository of the processes that drive our behavior, including primitive and instinctual desires.
• Structural model of Personality

  • Id
  • ego
  • Superego
• Id - operates at an unconscious level and focuses solely on instinctual drives and desire.
• Ego- ego acts as both conduit for and check on the id. It is the most tied reality and begins to develop in infancy.
• Superego - the portion of mind which morality and higher principle resides.
• First stage (birth to eighteen months) Oral - the child seeks pleasure from the mouth like sucking.
• Second Stage (eighteen months to three years) Anal- child's main pleasure turns towards (anus) bladder and bowel control, and a child gains pleasure from controlling these activities.
• Third Stage (three to six years) Phallic - Child's pleasure turns towards the genitals. When a boy unconsciously develops sexual desire for his mother, and sees his father as a competition is called Oedipus Complex. While Electra Complex is when a daughter develops competition with her mother.
• Fourth Stage (six years to puberty) Latent - the child has little or no sexual motivation. Child's sexual urgers are suppressed and sexual energy of the child is directed towards other challenges like social interactions.
• Fifth Stage (Puberty to adulthood) Genitals - The onset of puberty causes the libido to become active once again. The individual develops a strong sexual interest in the opposite sex. This stage begins during puberty but last throughout the rest of a person's life.