What Is Freud's Topographic Model?: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

How does the unconscious determine the rest of the psychic apparatus? This is a fundamental question to which - to answer it - Freud appeals to the study of the structure of the subject. The so-called "First Topography" and "Second Topography" are two models of the structure of the systems of the psyche: FIRST TOPOGRAPHY: UNCONSCIOUS, PRECONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUSNESS. SECOND TOPOGRAPHY: ID, EGO AND SUPEREGO. REPRESSION is a force that prevents certain contents from entering the consciousness. All the contents of the Freudian unconscious are repressed contents. It thus differs from other concepts of the unconscious, in which the contents are unconscious not because of repression (for example, in Piaget). Some of the axes that cross this text are the following: failed acts, lapses, dreams, neurotic symptoms, repression, primary process, pleasure principle, condensation, displacement, principle of non-contradiction, timelessness, reality principle, secondary principle, formations of the unconscious, among others. To arrive at such a synthesis, we have summarized the essentials of "Mental activity from psychoanalysis", by Lidia Bigio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201259808

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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What Is Freud's Topographic Model?

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

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WHAT IS FREUD'S TOPOGRAPHIC MODEL?

First edition. October 19, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201259808

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MENTAL ACTIVITY FROM THE PSYCHOANALYSIS

The double legality of the human psyche

Freud gives the Introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis between 1916 and 1917, for an audience of doctors and laymen. His objective is to give an initial approach to the concept of his unconscious. To do this, he begins by giving some examples of failed acts.

Freud maintains that in failed acts (when the subject says the opposite of what he intended to say) unconscious desires are revealed. He gives the example of the president of the Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, who said: I check the presence in the premises of a sufficient number of deputies, therefore I declare the session closed. According to Freud, this failure exhibits the unconscious desire of the Speaker of the Chamber to adjourn the session, despite the fact that it had to be started.

He gives the example of an anatomy teacher who told his students, when they stated that they had understood an explanation that he had just given, I don't think so, since people who truly understand these questions can be counted, even in a big city. , with a single finger. Oh, sorry, I mean with the fingers of one hand. In this case what is being revealed is an unconscious belief: this man believed he was the only one who understood these things.

THE FAILED, LAPSUS, ETC. ARISE FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS, DESPITE THE PREVIOUS INTENTION TO HIDE A DESIRE

THE UNCONSCIOUS MANAGES to express these wishes through these failures. In DREAMS and in NEUROTIC SYMPTOMS, something similar happens: they are means by which the unconscious expresses itself. In all these cases, Freud says, there is a sense that allows us to discover a desire that wants to be restrained.

THE INFLUENCES OF FREUD

 CHARCOT: STUDIES ON THE HYSTERIA AND METHOD OF HYPNOSIS

 NANCY DE BERNHEIM: SHOWS THAT HYPNOSIS CURES BY SUGGESTION

 BREUER: THE SYMPTOMS OF HER PATIENT ANA O. DISAPPEARED AS SOON AS SHE DISCOVERED, UNDER HYPNOSIS, THEIR ORIGIN

WHAT FREUD INTRODUCES as a novelty to the research of his time is the theoretical explanation he gives of the causes of these symptoms and the causes of their disappearance. For him the origin of the symptoms is not in neurological or somatic failures, as his contemporaries thought, but in unconscious desires that produced psychic conflicts. It is also an original idea of ​​Freud to think that these repressed (unconscious) desires are sexual and go back to childhood and in particular, to the Oedipus complex.