2130 Personality Psychology“Know Thyself”

Professor Ian McGregor

Psychoanalytic Theory

Mesmer’s Animal Magnetism Tub

Psychoanalysis (of the unconscious and its “mysterious ways”)

Sigmund Freud Carl Jung

Administrative Reminders Read syllabus and regulations Emailing TAs—2130 and Section M or N. Being on time for tests 55 minutes long Enrollment— undergraduate office

736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building Bring York ID Research participation, timing, sign up under 2130,

complete prescreen questions on SONA, only sign up for Psych 2130 studies.

Study for test by rehearsing exact answers (questions are provided). Read Freud and Jung lectures last.

Last Week’s Lecture Summary

Empowered, independent selves Appeal of Ideal Truth Virtue and happiness from self-knowledge

and inner harmony (i.e., Plato’s horses) Self-knowledge requires reflection, is

mysterious, and virtue is difficult Greek (nature) in contrast to Freudian

(nurture) theories of Individual Differences

This Week’s Lecture Overview Reading themes relevant for rest of course

“Association” and “complex” Repression and the horse

Freud’s three-part psyche, conflict and anxiety Freud’s iceberg model of the unconscious

Conservation of energy, drives, catharsis, displacement, sublimation, defense, repression, don’t starve the horse!

Therapy and unconscious association Repression Free association, transference, and dreams

Jung’s Departure

Freud’s Tripartite Psyche, and Anxiety***

Represssion “Excessively intense,”

“supervalent,” “reactive thoughts” “keep the objectionable one under repression by means of a certain surplus of intensity.”

Reactive thoughts form “mental dams” to keep

threats “at bay.”

Id (dark horse of desire) Neurotic anxiety

Ego (will, courage, white horse) Reality anxiety

Superego (rider, charioteer) Moral anxiety

Intrapsychic conflict

Freud’s Iceberg Unconscious

Psychodynamics Drives, wishes, energy

Libido (life instinct) Thanatos (death instinct)

Hydraulic theory Catharsis Displacement Sublimation

But give the poor

horse some hay!

Displacement, OK, But Catharsis?

Pillow punching Fired engineers and

aggression Trauma teams and

PTSD Pennebaker: Emotional

writing and health EMDR Desensitization, or

Meaning-making (Jung)?

Some Defense Mechanisms (A. Freud) Denial/distraction/suppression Rationalization Reaction Formation Repression (and return of the repressed)

Rowdy Audience-Member

“Hysterical Conversion” into neurotic symptoms Resistance in therapy

Freud, Jung, Therapy Will-power vs. mystery moods Unconsciousconscious Meaning of symptoms Parapraxes, humourhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPzM98h7NA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pvU1iyT3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PGeKNk1oWo

Free association Resistance Transference Dreams

Freud on Dreams Royal Road Wish fulfillment Sexual and aggressive themes Manifest and latent content Resistance—free association Anxiety Dreams—e.g., bears

Jung’s Smart Unconscious Not necessarily sex or death

“Approaching” the unconscious Eternity, wholeness, meaning Shadow integration, individuation Jung’s dream, Freud’s interpretation Ringing true or clicking

Jung’s Dream Examples

ExamplesJekyll/Hyde Neglected wifeSanitizing heavenCow partyFlying

Jung’s Contentious Ideas

Archetypes Synchronicity

(e.g., knife, table cracking) Pre-cognition

Quiz Next Week

22 Multiple Choice (11/19)

Longish answers (one page each for 2 questions) (8/19):

1. Describe Greek perspectives on personality processes (e.g., mythological and philosophical).

2. Describe Psychodynamic (Freud and Jung) perspectives on personality process (e.g., conflict, anxiety, defenses, therapeutic process).

Be on time and bring York photo-ID

Administrative Reminders Read syllabus and regulations Emailing TAs—2130 and Section M or N. Being on time for tests 55 minutes long Enrollment— undergraduate office

736-5117, 292A Behavioural Science Building Quiz attendance and being on time Bring York ID Research participation, timing, sign up under

2130, complete prescreen questions on SONA, only sign up for Psych 2130 studies.