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First Year notes on: The Psychoanalytical Approach. Contain a comprehensive summary, illustrations (where applicable) and additional otes/resources related to the topic. Contains notes from: Psychology - An Introduction (Paperback, 4th ed) L. Swartz, C. De la Rey, N. Duncan, L Townsend, V. O'Neill

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The Psychoanalytical Approach
Created @March 7, 2022 7:31 PM

Class PSYCH100A

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✨🥰💕🧚 Sigmund Freud 🧚 💕🥰✨

Personality: Psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s
enduring and distinctive patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving


Psychoanalytical response



The Psychoanalytical Approach 1

, The structures of personality are unconscious → people are unaware of why they
behave the way they do → influenced by instincts, unconscious motives, past
experiences and social norms.




Life and Death Instincts

Instincts: Basic motivational drives that are a basis for personality.
(Trieb) A driving force or impulse.



Life Instincts (eros)
Satisfy the need to survive and develop. Focus on food, water, air and sex. Sex= all
pleasurable thoughts/behaviours.
Energy: Libido



Death Instincts (Thanatos)
The destructive desires of the human race (destroy, conquer and kill) → unconscious
wish to die
(Largely criticised - very limited acceptance) Possibly influenced by ww1, daughter’s
death and cancer




The structure of Personality & levels of
consciousness

The conscious, preconscious and unconscious

The Psychoanalytical Approach 2

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