Plans for Wed Dec 4

1. Plans for Wed Dec 4 I will check your work tomorrow

2. Period 3 and 4(period 2, you already completed this ) • Find 2 personality tests online and complete this form… • Google form to use with personality tests  • http://docs.google.com/a/rtmsd.net/forms/d/1lx7xQo1Ml1-zMJIKLy2SEdOtC-es-6oYzknIkLjj4ZM/viewform • (this form is on my website)

3. Complete notes in packet • Skip the overview of theories and go to the Psychoanalytic information

4. Overview of Theories • Psychoanalytic - we are who we are because of our childhood - we are ruled by our unconscious

5. Read this… • Freud determined that all instincts fall into one of two major classes: the life instincts or the death instincts. • Life Instincts (Eros) • Sometimes referred to as sexual instincts, the life instincts are those that deal with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction. These instincts are important for sustaining the life of the individual as well as the continuation of the species. While they are often called sexual instincts, these drives also include such things as thirst, hunger, and pain avoidance. The energy created by the life instincts is known as libido.

6. Behaviors commonly associated with the life instinct include love, cooperation, and other prosocial actions. • Death Intincts (Thanatos) • Initially described in his book Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud proposed that “the goal of all life is death” (1920). He noted that after people experience a traumatic event (such as war), they often reenact the experience. He concluded that people hold an unconscious desire to die, but that this wish is largely tempered by the life instincts.In Freud’s view, self-destructive behavior is an expression of the energy created by the death instincts. When this energy is directed outward onto others, it is expressed as aggression and violence.

7. Instinctual Energy • Life Instinct (eros) self preservation • Death Instinct (thanatos) • Leads us to aggression and destruction • Next to your notes, write 2 examples of things we do to preserve life and 2 that lead us toward death and destruction

8. Read this • Go to about.com and read The Conscious and Unconscious Mind The Structure of the Mind According to Freud

9. Levels of consciousness • Conscious thought • Thoughts that we are aware of • Preconscious thought • Thoughts that we are not immediately aware of but can retrieve at will • Unconscious thought • Thoughts wishes and desires that we cannot voluntarily access

10. Freudian Slips- • Mistakes we make when talking which reflect our unconscious thoughts

11. Ways of understanding the mind • Free Association • Free flowing uncensored talk to provide clues to unconscious thought

12. Dream interpretation • based on the assumption that dreams have meaning that provide clues to the unconscious mind • Manifest content- actual images • Latent content- what they mean

13. Complete the Dream interpretation worksheet in your packet • You may need to research themes of dreams • Think about the difference between latent content and manifest content • If you can’t think of one of your dreams, use a dream someone else had