Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Episode 1: What is Psychoanalysis?
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Jan 30, 2021 AI Snips
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Modern View of the Unconscious
- Psychoanalysis sees the unconscious not as evil or mysterious but as thoughts and feelings beyond conscious awareness.
- It includes nonverbal thought like feelings, images, and bodily expressions needing sensitive interpretation.
Mental Conflicts Shape Symptoms
- Psychoanalysis understands mental problems as arising from inner conflicts, not dysfunction or disorder.
- Symptoms often reflect compromises between opposing inner drives like pleasure and reality principles.
Past Influences Present Self
- Childhood matters not as mere past but as active patterns affecting present relationships and self-experience.
- Psychoanalysis explores how early experiences reappear in current relational dynamics, especially with the therapist.