
Freud shifts from physiology to the whole-person study, including symptoms, childhood causes, thoughts, wishes, and dreams, giving rise to psychoanalysis and frames modern views on personality.
Freud portrays human nature as driven by two instincts, sexual and aggressive, and by libido, seeking pleasure via drive reduction, while intrapsychic conflict and unconscious causes shape personality.
Explore Freud's structural model of personality—id, ego, and superego—and how the ego balances pleasure, reality, anxiety, and internalized standards.
Explore how the ego uses defense mechanisms to cope with anxiety from the id and superego. Learn about repression, displacement, projection, and regression and their roles in dreams and behavior.
Freud presents personality development as a sequence of psychosexual stages—oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital—where libido and fixations, including the Oedipus complex and castration anxiety, shape behavior.
Work on the case of Klaus, and use what you just learned!
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Welcome to the complete course on Psychoanalysis!
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis is a theoretical paradigm of major importance in the field of psychology. This introductory course will help you grasp the foundations, notions, and different understandings of personality/development and unconscious behavior. Although Freud's theories are largely criticized, we owe however great appreciation to his development of the ideas such as the unconscious and development!
This course is for anyone, but can be supportive to students studying different fields; psychology, helping-oriented professions, and other human sciences.
Skills you will obtain throughout this course:
Achieve knowledge of the beginnings of Psychoanalysis and the history of Sigmund Freud
Achieve knowledge of the most central themes in Psychoanalysis (Perception of human nature, the personality model, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual development!)
Achieve academic knowledge that can help you with diverse projects on beginner-academic levels
Get the opportunity to work with a case to utilize what you learned!
Thank you for buying my course. I would love to be your sparrings-partner on the analysis of Klaus - the case attached to this course - to help you develop a further practical understanding of psychoanalysis. Feel free to message me at any time, if you have any questions. I will make sure to get back to you within a day!
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Christian