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Freud & Piaget

f psychoanalysis that they have permeated many other fields and aspects of society, “People who have never read a word of his work nonetheless known of things that can be traced, sometimes circuitously, back to Freud: penis envy; castration anxiety; phallic symbols; the ego, id and superego; repression; Oedipus conflict; sexual sublimation. This rich panoply of metaphors for the mental life has become...something very close to common knowledge,” (Gray, 1993: 1).

Freud began his concept of psychoanalysis when he found that early cases of hysteria he worked with showed the symptoms they did because of repressed memories or traumas. He realized there were some thoughts or events so traumatic to the conscious mind that defense mechanisms would be used in order to repress the events. In one of his lectures on a patient with hysteria he outlined this concept of repression and overcoming defense mechanisms as the way to help the patient achieve a higher degree of mental health, for once the subconscious or repressed thought is made conscious the mental stress is alleviated, “It is on this idea of resistance that I based my theory of the psychic process of hystericals. It had been found that in order to cure the patient it was necessary that this force should be overcome. Now with the mechanism of the cure as a starting point, quite a definite theory could be constructed. These same forces, which in the present situation as resistances opposed the emergence of the forgotten ideas into consciousness, must themselves have caused the forgetting, and repressed from consciousness the pathogenic experiences. I called this hypothetical process repression,” (Freud, 1910: 193).

Following the work of a Viennese internist named Josef Breuer, Freud recognized that hypnosis could cure neurotic patients. Freud would later turn to free association after breaking away from Breuer and many others in the field who felt his deep emphasis ...

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