Delve into the World of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is often the key to getting a person’s unconscious mind exposed to the open. Free association is a technique used by Freud.
In free association, the patient sits down and tells the therapist whatever comes to mind. The patient must never censor any thoughts and let the therapist be aware of all thoughts. It will let the therapist discover the line of thought of the patient. The point here is not to judge the patient’s thoughts. Instead, the goal is to be curious and determine the desires of the person.
The technique is rather free-form and both parties don’t know how this will go. The therapist usually links different themes together according to the thoughts and comes up with assumptions and about the unconscious desires of the patient. But the primary objective is to help the patient discover themselves and learn what really makes them tick.
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Tenets of Psychoanalysis
There are several tenets that makeup psychoanalysis and the primary ones are the following:
Forgotten Childhood
Based on psychoanalysis, the personality and traits of a person can be inherited and involve the things that happen during the early part of their childhood. The events that take place during early childhood are usually forgotten yet these can change the personality of a person for the worse or for the better. Even the smallest incidents you might have had when you were still a kid may shape and affect who you are.
Liberating Yourself
The best way to liberate yourself is to bring your unconscious to the front of your mind and use therapy for resolving your unconscious memories and desires.
Repression
There will be a form of resistance if you attempt to make the unconscious into the conscious. These might come in the form of your repressed memories.
Subtle Revelations
Your unconscious can be seen in several ways. It can come in the form of slips of the tongue, dreams, and other unexplainable behaviors.
The Unconscious
Your unconscious mind may bring out a lot of behaviors that you have. Most of your personality traits might be because of hard-to-find unconscious desires.
