02-07-12
bertha presents a large array of symptoms associated with hysteria, 21, 2 months before her father's death
mental confusion, hallucinations, paralysis, sensory loss, coughing, loss of speech for German, cannoto drink/eat, suicidal, split personality
we convert our psychological state to physical symptoms unconsciously
treated with hypnosis, could relate each symptom to an event that happened during her father's long illness (real or imagined), connecting the event to the symptom, the symptom would disappear, release of emotion (catharsis)
cathartic method: release of emotion, without emotional release there is no improvement
talking, no hypnosis anymore
freud interested in dreams, if you made any mistakes that caused you grief
became known as the talking cure
transference-thought to be a general social phenomenon, taking feelings we have had for a significant person in our past and reassigning it to a person in the immediate present
counter transference-the therapist now feels toward the patient how he or she would feel for someone in the past
freud comes to the conclusion that all hysteria and neurosis comes from sexual issues
breur thought that it was too inclusive and strong, had to be other reasons why people became mentally unbalanced
freud wants to write the neurophysiology of the mind, wants to render psychological processes as activity of the nervous system but as to abandon the project, too ambitious for the time
freud thought that there wre 2 natural instincts- sex and
biological drives are the basis for human intentionality
motives for behavior are often unconsciously
it is necessary to explain how people change over time
Ima injection dream-need to separate the manifest dream content and latent dream content
latent dream content is what the dream really wmeans
manifest is the surface,what's actually happening in the dream
dreams are often triggered by “daily residue” things we do while awake affect what happens in the dream
Freud's dream included Imma (combination of mostly emma eckstein and anna lichtheim)
freud was himself
physican 1-oscar rie, physician 2-josef breuer, physician 3-wilheim fleiss
there is a grand birthday party in a hall, freud is there to greet the guests
Emma comes in (irl, emma is a patient, treatment is not going well), complains that she is not feeling well, freud tells her that it's her fault (true feelings coming out) but he'll take a look at her, looks down her throat, sees pus red tissue white tissue
he calls the other two doctors over and they are appallled and have a discussion, why did this happen to Emma, Rie gave Imma an injection but the needle was infected and lead to the illnesses she had in her throat, the medication was actually a poison (so it wasn't freud's fault)
irl, he is mad at rie because rie is asking him why emma is not getting better
Freud interpreted the dream as wish fulfillment, all dreams exist for this sole purpose, what we can't have in real life, we can have in a dream
Freud doesn't want to be held responsible for emma's condition
Emma had constant nose bleeds because doctor left gauze in her, Freud called another doctor in who found the gauze and pulled it out
in the dream, fleiss is not held responsible for emma's condition (when he was), did freud not want to blame his friend (never brought it up to his friend)
the conscious can only hold so much-thoughts, perceptions
preconscious is readily available to the conscious-memories, stored knowledge
unconscious-fears, violent memories, irrational wishes, immoral urges, selfish needs
unacceptable sexual desires shameful expereicnes
short and long term memories accessible, are there memories that are not?
Unconscious controlled by primary thining process, fantasy, can creep into consciousness (daydreaming, imagining, creativity)
preconscious mind is introspectable, searchable
conscious is controlled by secondary thinking process, real life, rational
consciousness might go through both primary and secondary, but dominated by primary
Freud, in his self analysis, remembered aggressive feelings toward his father, sexual feelings for his mother, elaborate fantasies about his parents and siblings
oedipal complex-boy has sexual feelings for his mother but is worried about father, the son and father become rivals for the mother's affection
boy deals with this by repressing the feelings for his mother in order to grow and feel safe from his father, later on, boy will take those feelings for the mother and transfer them out to other people
same thing for girls, but with other gender (elektra complex)