Theories of the Mind

Handout: week 2

Here is an outline of Freud's theory, which will be the basis for class discussion:

conscious/unconscious

repression
sublimation

dreams

latent/manifest content
dreamwork
free association
over-determination
primary and secondary processes
secondary elaboration

childhood development

primal scene
oral/anal/genital stages
penis envy
castration complex
Electra complex
Oedipus complex
genitality

treatment

analysand
abreaction
transference/counter-transference

the map of the mind

pleasure principle
reality principle
id/ego/superego
repetition compulsion
death instinct

technical terms

cathexis
introjection
projection