Peterson on Freud
2015 Personality Lecture 08: Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud (Part 1)
People organise their personalities by talking and if you don’t have anyone to listen to you then there’s no reality check.
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Notes are for this version – he doesn’t get to end:
5.00
history
13.25
Nietzsche words and deeds manifestations of unconscious motivations mainly from instincts and conflicts of instincts passions dreams mental illness = unconscious
15.22
ID term from Nietzsche defence mechanisms sublimation mental energy system of drives Freud thought sublimation of sexual drive produced creativity and civilization
48.10
Freud corrective for people convinced that rational intellect is the fundamental elements of being.
deeply embedded in animal cells
15.44 people’s thinking is associational linked together by emotional similarities
implicit attitudes research
you can see underlying theme if you pay attention to wandering thoughts this is free association
52.95
people organise their personalities by talking and if you don’t have anyone to listen to you then no reality check need coherent narrative requires long-term therapeutic relationship
1.10.x
By 1900, four functions of unconscious described:
- Conservative memories, often unaccessible to voluntary recall
- Dissolutive habits once voluntary now automatized and disassociated elements of personality (which lead a parasitic existence)
- Creative matrix of new ideas eg: brainstorming
- Mythopoetic constructed narratives and fantasies that appear mythic or religious