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Understanding Freud: Motivation and the Human Mind

Explore the importance of Sigmund Freud and his psychological theories, including motivation, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and the aspects of the human mind. Learn about the method and goal of psychoanalysis and ways of accessing the unconscious. Apply the knowledge to better understand the character of Holden Caulfield in "Catcher in the Rye".

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Understanding Freud: Motivation and the Human Mind

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  1. Warm Up 10/28 • Please copy the guiding questions for today’s lesson: • Why is Freud most important? Two reasons. • What makes people do things? • What are Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, from lowest to highest? • Define these terms: Id, Ego, Superego • Define these levels of the mind: conscious, preconscious, unconscious • What is the method and goal of psychoanalysis? • List some ways of letting out the unconscious.

  2. Learning Targets: • To answer questions about Sigmund Freud and his psychological theories.

  3. Psychology Sigmund Freud

  4. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -Austrian, doctor -father of psychoanalysis One of the first psychologists to study human motivation -Psychiatry vs. Psychology -up until 20th century frontal lobotomies were performed on patients

  5. Freud-believed that mental illness is a result of nurture, not nature. He asked the question: “What makes people do things?” Answer: MOTIVATION Needs motivate human behavior (food, shelter, clothing…)

  6. Maslow's hierarchy of human needs. (From Maslow, A. (1970}. Motivation and personality (2nd ed.). New York: Harper & Row; reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers.)

  7. Being deprived of a need arouses a feeling called a DRIVE OR DESIRE. Animals respond instinctively, humans learn various ways to respond. Human motivation explains the reasons why people behave the way they do. People have DRIVES OR DESIRES in the back of their minds ie: Will to live, will to die Some of these desires cause people to behave irrationally.

  8. People are born with a certain number of instincts or DRIVES (human instinctive behavior) The human mind has 3 aspects that influence behavior: Ego Superego Id

  9. ID- unconconscious part of the mind (this part of the mind seeks to bring us pleasure) -primitive parts of our personality including aggression and sexual drives EGO-conscious part of the mind (Rational Self). Decides what action to take for positive means and what to do based on what is believed is the right thing to do. Aware of reality. SUPEREGO- unconscious part of the mind that acts as our conscience. Reminds us of what we should do. The ID and the SUPEREGO are in constant conflict. Your DRIVE tells you to do one thing , while SOCIETY tells you to do something else.

  10. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, compared the human mind to an iceberg. The tip above the water represents consciousness, and the vast region below the surface symbolizes the unconscious mind. Of Freud’s three basic personality structures—id, ego, and superego—only the id is totally unconscious.

  11. The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water" (S. Freud)

  12. If you don’t resolve this conflict between the ID and the EGO, you may experience unhappiness or mental distress. Thus, in order to understand motivation, you must understand what is in your unconscious memory. This is the basis for PSYCHOANALYSIS.

  13. “Psychoanalysis has as its core the idea that each of us has an unconsciouspart whose existence, activities and thoughts are hidden behind a mental barrier that we cannot voluntarily remove. Behind this barrier are repressed and psychologically dangerous thoughts that give rise to unconscious conflicts, which in turn, can result in psychological and physical symptoms.” - Plotnik, p. 514

  14. How do you get this out? • FREE ASSOCIATION • -ink blot pictures, word association (Way of “tricking” you to lull your conscious mind to sleep to bring out the unconscious).

  15. 2) HYPNOSIS - Freud was one of the first to use this. This is a way of freeing the unconscious mind or opening up drawers to remember vivid details of the past.

  16. DREAMS • Freud believed dreams were your unconscious mind talking to you. Dreams were very symbolic and difficult to analyze. • Eg: driving a car • (driver) means you feel in control of your life • (passenger) –someone else is in control of your life • Horses –symbolize freedom

  17. Homework: • Answer these questions: • As we’ve just begun Catcher in the Rye, it may be hard to have a complete idea of who Holden Caulfield is or why he does what he does. However, what from your learning today do you think you can use to better understand him? What, if anything, can you already reveal about him? • Read Chapter two.

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