Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis and Psychosexual Development

- Neurologist
- Founded the discipline of psychoanalysis

- Patient talks through his or her problems
- To locate and release powerful emotional energy that had initially been rejected or imprisoned in the unconscious mind
- Coined by Anna O., Josef Breuer's patient

- The psychological attempt by an individual to repel its own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts
- Buried memories or traumatic experiences
- A defense mechanism

- Patients are invited to relate whatever comes into their minds during the analytic session, and not to censor their thoughts
- This technique is intended to help the patient learn more about what he or she thinks and feels, in an atmosphere of non-judgmental curiosity and acceptance
- Originally devised by Freud's coworker Josef Breur

- Transference
- Resistance
- Projection

Unwittingly transferring feelings about one person to become applied to another person

Projecting internal feelings or motives, instead ascribing them to other things or people

Holding a mental block against remembering or accepting some events or ideas

- Dream analysis
- The "talking cure"
- Free association
- Transference
- Pressure technique

Childhood experiences

- Form of hypnosis
- A hand was pressed on the patient's forehead, while the patient was lying down on a couch, and questions were asked

A layer between conscious and unconscious thought

- The emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother, and kill his father
- Occurs during the Phallic Stage

- Female version of the Oedipus complex, where she is fixated on her father
- A term not authorized by Freud

As humans develop, they become fixated on different and specific objects through their stages of development because humans are born "polymorphously perverse", meaning that any number of objects could be a source of pleasure