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ASP224 Anna O - Anna’s symptoms: o suffered paralysis on the right side of her body and her left arm o impairment of vision o disturbed posture of her head o nervous cough o couldn’t drink water for 6 weeks o loss of ability to speak her native German, but still understand it o ‘absences’ - Breuer experiments with hypnosis o Asks her to consider the repeated words o Asks about the beginnings of her symptoms o Symptoms began at a pivotal age, when she was looking after her ill father Psychoanalysis - Clinical practice o Based on talking cure o Rule of free association o A person should say everything that comes into their head - A hermeneutic, interpretive practice - A theory of the mind with psychobiological, neurobiological aspirations o Metapsychology - A theory of civilization, religion, art and culture Parapraxis - Either: o They are meaningless and related to a lapse of concentration o Or what was actually said relates to a secondary motive, which is seeking to express something different or hostile to the intended meaning - the unconscious desires unable to find direct expression and therefore manifest themselves in roundabout ways Obsessional Neuroses - patient is occupied with thoughts seemingly unrelated to their usual interests and sense of identity - they suffer from impulses which appear strange or obnoxious to them - they feel compelled to perform acts which give them no enjoyment o repetitions or ceremonial elaborations of activities of ordinary life o these necessary activities (e.g. going to bed, washing, dressing, going for a walk) can become extremely tedious and almost insoluble tasks for them - the Ratman The Ego - Freud’s name for the part of the psyched that takes on the difficult profession of trying to manage the relationship between internal and external realities

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How does it serve these masters? o Fantasies that the advent of the wish automatically leads to fulfilment: “infantile omniscience”  In early life, parents and carers insulate the infant from the demands of reality – protect and nurture them ...