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  2. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud desired to understand religion and spirituality and deals with the nature of religious beliefs in many of his books and essays. He regarded God as an illusion, based on the infantile need for a powerful father figure. Freud believed that religion was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress.

  3. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    In Freud's model the psyche consists of three different elements, the id, ego, and the superego. The id is the aspect of personality that is driven by internal and basic drives and needs, such as hunger, thirst, and the drive for sex, or libido. The id acts in accordance with the pleasure principle. Due to the instinctual quality of the id, it ...

  4. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    Freud himself used the German terms das Es, Ich, and Über-Ich, which literally translate as "the it", "I", and "over-I". The Latin terms id, ego and superego were chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. In the essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Freud introduced his "structural model" of the soul. It describes the ...

  5. Cathexis - Wikipedia

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    Freud defined cathexis as an allocation of libido, pointing out for example how dream thoughts were charged with different amounts of affect. [5] A cathexis or allocation of emotional charge might be positive or negative, leading some of his followers to speak of a cathexis of mortido as well. [6] Freud called a group of cathected ideas a ...

  6. Metapsychology - Wikipedia

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    Freud's soul model, referring to his rider-horse parable: the human head symbolises the ego, the animal the id. Similarly, the dynamics of the libido (drive energy) branches out from the id into two main areas: the mental urge to know and the bodily urge to act. Both are bundeled into action by the ego with the aim of satisfying the id's basic ...

  7. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    Both the public and corporate workshops are half-day events, but over the years many people have been doing the workshop on their own, usually taking about three hours to get through the 10 questions. Watching them succeed so well on their own helped me realize this really can be a simple do-it-yourself process.

  8. Psychodynamics - Wikipedia

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    This was Freud’s greatest achievement, and one of the greatest achievements in modern science, It is certainly a crucial event in the history of psychology. At the heart of psychological processes, according to Freud, is the ego , which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world. [ 8 ]

  9. Abreaction - Wikipedia

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    Freud and Breur, however, did not treat the spontaneous emotional reliving of traumatic events as curative. [5] They instead described abreaction as the full emotional and motoric response to a traumatic event necessary in adequately relieving a person of being repetitively and unpredictably assailed by the trauma's original and unmitigated ...