2130 Personality Psychology Know Thyself

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2130 Personality Psychology Know Thyself

• Professor Ian McGregor
• Lecture 2 Psychoanalytic Theory

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Mesmers Animal Magnetism Tub
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Psychoanalysis (of the unconscious and its
mysterious ways)
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
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Administrative Reminders

• Read syllabus and regulations
• Emailing TAs2130 and Section M,P,R.
• Being on time for tests 45 minutes long
• Enrollment undergraduate office
• 736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building
• Bring York ID
• Research participation, timing, sign up under
  2130, complete prescreen questions on SONA, only
  sign up for Psych 2130 studies.

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Lecture 1 Summary and Integration

• Empowered, independent selves
• Appeal of Ideal Truth
• Virtue and happiness from self-knowledge and
  inner harmony (i.e., Platos horses)
• Self-knowledge requires reflection, is
  mysterious, and virtue is difficult
• Greek (nature) in contrast to Freudian (nurture)
  theories of Individual Differences

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Lecture 2 Overview

• Reading themes relevant for rest of course
• Association and complex
• Repression and the horse
• Freuds three-part psyche, conflict and anxiety
• Freuds iceberg model of the unconscious
• Conservation of energy, drives, catharsis,
  displacement, sublimation, defense, repression,
  dont starve the horse!
• Therapy and unconscious association
• Repression
• Free association, transference, and dreams
• Jungs Departure

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Freuds Tripartite Psyche, and Anxiety

• Represssion
• Excessively intense, supervalent, reactive
  thoughts keep the objectionable one under
  repression by means of a certain surplus of
  intensity.
• Reactive thoughts form mental dams to keep
  threats at bay.

• Id (passionate beast)
• Neurotic anxiety
• Superego (ideal horse)
• Moral anxiety
• Ego (rider of horse or charioteer)
• Reality anxiety
• Intrapsychic conflict

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Freuds Iceberg Unconscious
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Psychodynamics

• Drives, wishes, energy
• Libido (life instinct)
• Thanatos (death instinct)
• Hydraulic theory
• Catharsis
• Displacement
• Sublimation
• But give the poor
• horse some hay!

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Displacement, OK, But Catharsis?

• Pillow punching
• Fired engineers and aggression
• Trauma teams and PTSD
• Pennebaker Emotional writing and health
• EMDR
• Desensitization, or Meaning-making (Jung)?

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Some Defense Mechanisms (A. Freud)

• Denial/distraction/suppression
• Rationalization
• Reaction Formation
• Repression (and return of the repressed)
• Rowdy Audience-Member
• Hysterical Conversion into neurotic symptoms
• Resistance in therapy

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Freud, Jung, Therapy

• Will-power vs. mystery moods
• Unconscious?conscious
• Meaning of symptoms
• Parapraxes, humour
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  related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vz8pvU1iyT3c
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v5PGeKNk1oWo
• Free association
• Resistance
• Transference
• Dreams

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Freud on Dreams

• Royal Road
• Wish fulfillment
• Sexual and aggressive themes
• Manifest and latent content
• Resistancefree association
• Anxiety Dreamse.g., bears

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Jungs Smart Unconscious

• Not necessarily sex or death
• Approaching the unconscious
• Eternity, wholeness, meaning
• Shadow integration, individuation
• Jungs dream, Freuds interpretation
• Ringing true or clicking

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Jungs Dream Examples

• Examples
• Jekyll/Hyde
• Neglected wife
• Sanitizing heaven
• Cow party
• Flying

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Jungs Contentious Ideas

• Archetypes
• Synchronicity
• (e.g., knife, table cracking)
• Pre-cognition

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Quiz Next Week

• 20 Multiple Choice
• One short essay (no more than 3 pages), e.g.,
  Greek and psychodynamic perspectives on conflict
  and harmony, personality processes, know
  thyself, or obstacles to mature personality
  development
• Best if not redundant with MC questions
• Be on time

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Administrative Reminders

• Read syllabus and regulations
• Emailing TAs2130 and Section M,P,R.
• Being on time for tests 45 minutes long
• Enrollment undergraduate office
• 736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building
• Quiz attendance and being on time
• Bring York ID
• Research participation, timing, sign up under
  2130, complete prescreen questions on SONA, only
  sign up for Psych 2130 studies.