User:S.emp/Week 12 Lecture 10

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=Week 12, Lecture 10=

Psychodynamic Perspective
This perspective believes that the causes of people’s motivations and behaviours come from biologically endowed and socially acquired impulses that establish our desires, thoughts, feelings and behaviours, where we like it or not. Psychoanalytic is the traditional Freudian approach to the unconscious that discusses our own private subjective experiences and why unwanted desires and fears make their home there. It is the study of dynamic unconscious mental processes.

The Dual-Instinct Theory, which was founded by Freud, thought that all energy a person needed for life, both physical and mental came from biological drivers or instincts and that these drives explained our motivation. Freud believed that all our bodily drives could be fit into two categories; instincts for life (Eros) and instincts for death (Thanatos),

The contemporary psychodynamic theory is based on four principles the Unconscious (the unconscious is hidden from both private consciousness and public observation), psychodynamics (this refers to mental processes that operate in parallel to each other), ego development and objective relations theory (mental representations of oneself and others form during childhood as a guide to a person’s later social motivations and relationship).

The Unconscious
There are different theories in regards to the unconscious, the three main theories are \ Freudian unconscious, adaptive unconscious and implicit motivation.


 * Freudian Unconscious automatically appraises the environment. This concept explores people’s dreams and the hidden messages, tensions and desires.
 * Adaptive Unconscious appraises the environment, sets goals, makes judgements and initiates actions, while we are consciously thinking about other things. In other words people are performing tasks on auto-pilot’.
 * Implicit Motivation refers to all the emotions, motivations, attitudes and judgements that occurs outside of a person’s consciousness. Implicit motivation automatically attends to emotionally linked environmental events. It is a combination of our explicit and implicit motivations.

Subliminal Motivation is another important motivation, it is where a person subliminally stimulates unconscious information. These type of motivations can emotionally effect people but it does not necessarily motivate someone to change their behaviour.

I find it interesting that people experience emotions, thoughts and experiences without realising it. The unconscious is a part of us that will probably never be completely understood, yet it is something that is vital for development of a person’s motivations and emotions.