Psychoanalysis at one time was able to turn the concept of human personality in psychology. Over time, the followers of the teachings introduced new terms and concepts that facilitated work with the human psyche, aimed at searching for unconscious motives and hidden fears.
Psychoanalysis in psychology is associated primarily with the name of Sigmund Freud. Carl Gustav Jung continued his teaching, having delved deeply into it and adding a lot of new things, including such a concept as “collective unconscious”.
Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud
The laws of psychology are deep and multifaceted. It is psychoanalysis that acts as one of the most effective methods in the study of the psyche. When Freud founded this direction at one time, the world of psychology literally turned upside down, as he received a completely new understanding of the human psyche.
The scientist identified three main components in the psyche:
- the conscious part;
- preconscious;
- unconscious.
In his opinion, the preconscious is a repository of many desires and fantasies. Its parts can be redirected to the field of the conscious, if you pay attention to one of the desires. Those moments of life that the individual cannot realize, as this clearly contradicts moral principles and principles, or appears as too painful, is located in the unconscious.
The unconscious part is separated from the other two parts of consciousness by censorship. In psychology, psychoanalysis studies the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.
Subsequently, the following means of psychoanalysis were allocated in psychological science:
- analysis of random actions related to the symptomatic type that occur in everyday life;
- analysis using free associations;
- analysis through the interpretation of dreams.
Psychoanalysis and Practical Psychology
With the help of various teachings of psychological science, people can find answers to multiple questions born in the depths of the soul. Psychoanalysis is aimed at prompting a search for an answer that is often narrow and particular. Psychologists around the world mostly work with client motivations, emotions, attitude with reality, the world of feelings and images. But analysts are focused on the unconscious person.
Regardless of the obvious differences, there are common features in practical psychology and psychoanalysis. For example, in the book of Raygorodsky “Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Character” there is a description of social and individual characters. He does not forget about the typology of psychoanalysis, since the inner world of any individual begins in the realm of the unconscious.