Psychoanalysis

= = = __INTRODUCTION:__ =

Our school of thought is Psychoanalysis. This school of thought was founded by a man name Sigmund Freud. In this school of thought it is believes that our behavior comes from both our brain and our environment. More so from our environment and our experiences. Sigmund was from Vienna and thats where he made alot of his progress. Back in the 1890’s there was very little discovered about the human psyche but Sigmund changed all that through his life. He did this by discovering and treating people with mental illnesses and and finding out why peaople acted the way they did back then.

= BRIEF HISTORY: =
 * Sigmund Freud** started the whole generation of the concept of **Psychoanalysis**. He believed that the brain was hidden deep beneath the earth that had to be found. Much like an archeologist would do to the ancient grounds of our ancestors and try and unearth treasures. He started the new age of rethinking about the behavior of man. **Sigmund Freud** did his best to answer on very important question. Why do we all give in so fast to the bad nature of man that make us hurt ourselves and others? **Freud** gave us a reason why we behave as we do. He simply put it, the mind was just unaware. Its part of your behavior, that you just don't know what you are doing. If your mind was aware all of the time you would have no time to live. we would be aware of every breath we take, every beat our heart takes, and every step our feet takes. That is one example Freud used as the **"unconscious"**. He even said that the **unconscious** comes back into your dreams, and reveals to you your wishes.
 * Freud** recieved the **Goethe Prize** in 1930 for his huge commitment to psychology. Even though he ws renowned one of the great contributers to psychology, his reputation died out a little due to his **cocaine** use. He wrote a couple of arguments twoard this drug, saying its a great antidepressant. He also wrote a paper saying how it can help many disorders, or even help cure many addictions. He even wanted all of his friends and family to use it. This is the man who basicklly started the revolution of cocaine and why everyone used it, until poeple started overdosing, thats how his reputation was tarnished.
 * Freud** was influenced by **J.F. Herbert**, a German philosopher. His main point was, That everything your mind does results from the actions and interactions of ideas. He put them in two categories the stronger and the weaker. Stronger is when you have repetitive conflict with another man. Weaker being more mellow and shy. It was also said that your **imagination** was a mental illness.
 * Hypnotism** has also a big part In Psychoanalysis. They used this find and cure many mental illnesses, like sexual disorders. Freud put the mind into 3 categories. The **id**, the **ego**, and the **super ego**. the **id** only wants its needs fulfilled, without morals, no sense of reality, and only seeks pleasure. The **ego** is the part that decides between reality and fantasy, and grows every year to give us greater and greater pleasure. Then the **super ego** is what we learn from are parents, and the people around us. If you have too much or to little of the **super ego** you will always be unhappy.
 * Carl Jung** believed many of the same ideas as Freud did but he Had some of his own. The most important piece about history from Jung is his book **"The Red Book"** which is actually being published this October. In his **red book** their is, water color pictures, essays, dream journals and mystical encounters. He surrounded all of his thinking about the human brain and the unconscious around dreams, mythology, and folklore.

__**(Psycho-developmental Stages Theory):**__ The psycho-developmental stage theory is in Freud's words where humans are born "perverse". That means that a child looks for any objects for pleasure. The first stage of this theory is the "oral stage" which is from birth to 18 months and the gratification comes from sucking and swallowing this is called "oral incorporation". After this stage is done it is replaced by biting or chewing which is called "oral aggression". Following the oral stage is the "anal stage" this is the gratification of releasing feces. This stage lasts from 18 months to 3 years. Later this is replaced by holding in the feces which is called "anal retention". The second last stage in this theory is the "phallic stage", this stage lasts from 3 years to 6 years and is incorperated with the touching of ones genitals. Also in the phallic stage, the person feels attached to the parent of opposite sex and a rivalry in the same sex parent. After this there is a latency in a stage from 6 to 12 years old. The last stage is the adult stage and continues from 12 upward. = __Current Events__ = **Five Things You Can Do To Help Recall Your Dreams:** One of the hardest things to do before you even analyze a dream is having to recall a dream. You have a dream and it feels so real and you wake up and try to remember what happened but you can't. There are ways to help you recall dreams.
 * __(ICEBERG THEORY)__: ** The iceberg represents a persons personality and could also represent the functions of a persons mind. Just as an iceberg only shows the top part, this theory shows that the personality only shows a little bit of what you think and that is your conscious. The preconscious is thought just below the awareness of a person. The unconscious is the area below awareness and holds most information. The ego is common sense and reason and it exists mostly in the conscious but some people say it also exists in the preconscious and unconscious. The superego is moral beliefs and is driven by social appropriateness and it also exists in all three consciousness's. The Id is an unorganized part of ones personality that drives basic instincts. The Id acts as a pleasure principle, a pleasure principle tries to avoid pain or displeasure. The Id is deep within the unconscious and contains suppressed thoughts and impulses.

Some people say that they don't dream but in fact, they really do. They just can't recall what they dream of. To recall a dream you could say to yourself, "I believe that these dreams contain a valid message." Saying this tells yourself that you are serious about wanting to know what your dreams mean and will let you recall your dreams easier. When you dream you might think that that your dreams aren't important. That could be a reason why you don't remember your dreams. If you tell yourself you don't care about your dreams and just forget them, then you will.

Another thing you could do is, if you're religious, is ask your god to help you remember. Your god is supposed to answer your prayers and if you ask it to speak to you in your dreams then it should.

You could keep a journal next to your bed and record you dreams as soon as you wake up. When you wake up you're not exactly all with it and when someone talks to you, you may lose the memory of the dream.

Getting 8 hours of sleep is another way to help recall your dream because only the last 2 hours of sleep is when you dream. If you get a full 8 hours of sleep then you get a full 2 hours of dreaming and you will be more likely to finish a dream and remember it after you wake up.

Waking up naturally is a good way to recall your dreams. If you get waken up by an alarm clock or someone wakes you up then you get thrown out of your dream. Your dream gets shattered like glass against a baseball bat. After that happens it is extremely hard to pick up the pieces and put them together to form a full dream.

Why It's Not A Good Idea To Analyze Your Dreams
It may not be a good idea to analyze your dreams because it may be taken too seriously or you may spend too much time and money trying to find out what your dreams mean, if they even mean anything important. You may find that books translate dreams differently than other books so you may get false information and it could send you into depression or paranoia. Dream interpretation should be something fun to do and not be treated seriously because there are many different ways to analyze a dream.

= VOCAB: = **Neurosis**- is a disorder in which you are in depression, anxiety, and compulsive acts dominate your mind. ** Goethe prize -** its an award, awarded to great German literary philosophers. (not just for writers)  Freeman, Lucy. Exploring the Mind of Man. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1969]. Print.
 * Psychoanalysis**- Studies the human behavior, and also can cure emotional illness.
 * Unconscious**- Is being unaware of the situation
 * Free association**- Speaking out ones thoughts, of ides, emotions, and feelings
 * Transference**- you will recover feelings unconsciously from childhood

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