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    Sigmund Freud developed the psychodynamic model of psychology to explain human motivation and behavior. He proposed that the unconscious mind, which contains urges, desires, and fears outside of conscious awareness, has a significant influence on behavior and reactions. Freud suggested the mind has three parts - the id which operates on the pleasure principle, the ego which mediates between the id and reality, and the superego which represents societal morality. He used the metaphor of an iceberg to represent the mind, with most of it existing unconsciously beneath the surface. Freud made major contributions through his theories of psychoanalysis, the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development.

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    Sigmund Freud developed the psychodynamic model of psychology to explain human motivation and behavior. He proposed that the unconscious mind, which contains urges, desires, and fears outside of conscious awareness, has a significant influence on behavior and reactions. Freud suggested the mind has three parts - the id which operates on the pleasure principle, the ego which mediates between the id and reality, and the superego which represents societal morality. He used the metaphor of an iceberg to represent the mind, with most of it existing unconsciously beneath the surface. Freud made major contributions through his theories of psychoanalysis, the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development.

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    Freud's Psychodynamic Model Explained

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    Sigmund Freud developed the psychodynamic model of psychology to explain human motivation and behavior. He proposed that the unconscious mind, which contains urges, desires, and fears outside of conscious awareness, has a significant influence on behavior and reactions. Freud suggested the mind has three parts - the id which operates on the pleasure principle, the ego which mediates between the id and reality, and the superego which represents societal morality. He used the metaphor of an iceberg to represent the mind, with most of it existing unconsciously beneath the surface. Freud made major contributions through his theories of psychoanalysis, the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages of development.

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    PSYCHODYNAMIC • Able to verbalize

    • Logical
    MODEL PRECONSCIOUS
    • Dreams, Memories, Stored Knowledge, etc.
    • Can easily be retrieved
    • What, in general, motivates humans? UNCONSCIOUS
    • Why do we do, what we do? • Inaccessible to awareness
    • Do you think that the things we don’t think • “Storage” of urges, pains, fears, desires,
    about affect us? etc. that are “tied” to anxiety.
    • Why do we react the way we do when we • The have not disappeared but affects or
    feel “threatened” or “anxious”? consciousness.
    “Deep Psychology”
    • Emphasis on the interplay between the
    CONSCIOUS and UNCONSCIOUS motivation.
    • Unconscious is the source of our
    development and motivation.

    Sigmund Freud
    – Sigismund Schlomo Freud
    • (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)
    – Developed the concept of Psychodynamics
    • Psychological Energy = Libido
    – Theories
    • Unconscious
    • Defense Mechanisms Structural Model of the Mind
    – Sexual Desires = primary motivational Like the previous model, we can use the iceberg as
    energy a metaphor.
    – 1900 published “Interpretation of
    Dreams” Three Parts of the Personality…
    – Trained Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, According to Freud:
    Anna Freud 1. Id
    – While others are trying to analyze the 2. Ego
    CONSCIOUSNESS (Structuralism and 3. Superego
    Functionalism), Freud was studying the
    UNCONSCIOUS ID
    • Irrational
    Outline • Pleasure Principle
    1. Topographical Model of the • In the unconscious
    Mind EGO
    2. Structural Model of Personality • Rational
    3. Defense Mechanisms • Reality Principle
    4. Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of • Negotiates with the Id and the Superego
    Development • In the Conscious
    SUPEREGO
    • Conscience / Guilt
    Topographical Model of the • Morality of the society
    Mind • Partly Conscious; Partly Unconscious
    Only 10% of an iceberg is seen. 90% of it is hidden
    beneath the water.

    Three Levels of Consciousness...


    According to Freud:
    1. Conscious
    2. Preconscious
    3. Unconscious

    CONSCIOUS
    • Thoughts & Perceptions

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