Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

• An Outline of Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

• 1856-1939
• Interests
• Dreams
• Conflicts within people
• Influenced literary interpretation
• 1920-1940 main years of influence

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The Freudian Mind

• Id
• Instinct
• Inherently selfish
• Not necessarily negative
• Concerned with survival
• Concerned with immediate satisfaction

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The Freudian Mind

• Ego
• Societal norms
• Developed via our experience and the response to
  the experience
• Reality Principle
• Reasoning
• Calculating
• Suppresses id

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The Freudian Mind

• Superego
• Highest moral impulse
• Fostered by the influence of our parents (or
  early care givers)

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The Oedipal Complex

• Suggests a sensual relationship is present
  between a child and his opposite sex parent
• The child desires to remove the same sex parent
  from the equation in order to take over the role