PSYCHOANALYSIS

Discipline & Ideas in

Social Sciences
 Psychoanalysis can
be described in two
ways
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 It is a comprehensive
theory about human
nature, drive, actions,
growth and experience

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 Refers to a method of
treatment for
psychological problems
and challenges in living a
successful life.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
Based on the
observation that
individuals are often
unaware of the factors
that determine their
emotions and
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PSYCHOANALYTIC
TREATMENT
Examines how the
unconscious factors
affect current
relationships and
patterns of thoughts,
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emotions and behaviour
 Sigmund
Freud
Born on May 6, 1856
1873 he entered the
University of Vienna
Medical School
graduated In 1881
But practice research
physiology.
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 Sigmund
Freud
1885 he received a grant
from the university of
Vienna and studied in
Paris with the famous
French neurologist Jean-
Martin Charcot.
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 Sigmund
Freud
Joseph Breuer, a famous
Viennese physician from
whom Freud learned
about catharsis, a
tg method of removing
hysterical symptoms
through “Talking them
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Out”
 Sigmund
Freud
1890 he began analysing
his own dreams until he
completed his greatest
work, “The
Interpretation of
Dreams, in 1900”
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 Oedipus Complex
Refers to a male child’s sexual
feelings for his mother as well as
feelings of jealousy and anger
towards his father
 Electra Complex
Refers to a girl’s feelings of
desire for her father and
jealousy of her mother
 Freud’s theory of
personality
Super
Ego Ego
Id
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 Id
Serves as the
original system of
personality

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 Ego
Referred to as the
decision-making
branch of
personality
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 Super Ego
Referred to as the
discriminating branch
of the personality in the
sense that it is
concerned with
moralistic issues
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 According to Freud
The key to a healthy
personality is a balance
between Id, ego and super
ego.
 Individual
Psychology
Asserts that the
primary motives of
human thought and
behaviour are
individual’s striving for
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superiority and power
 Analytical
Psychology
Theorized that the
collective unconscious
influences personality,
which was made up of
archetypes images
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inherited from our
 Freud was able to develop
techniques that could be used
in psychoanalysis by making
unconscious conscious

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