Unconscious desires

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According to Sigmund Freud's original concept, unconscious desires are significantly involved in dream formation. The wish fulfillment through at least rudimentary awareness in the dream was one of the fundamental results of his dream interpretation , even if the effect of the censorship has to be taken into account. Because of the wish fulfillment, the dream could be called the “guardian of sleep”. According to Freud's theory of dreams, the driving force for dream formation must be provided by a desire belonging to the unconscious . These assumptions later served Freud as prerequisites for the representation of special superego structures ( ego ideal ). They were taken up by various later authors, as it had been shown that these assumptions are also applicable to disorders of wish fulfillment. In the case of disturbed wish fulfillment, we speak of unconscious conflicts or internal conflicts . - In contrast to biological approaches in psychiatry , the concept of “unconscious conflicts” serves as a psychosocial explanatory model in social psychiatry .

Psychodynamic model

The acceptance of unconscious wishes helped Freud to explain the psychology of dream processes. He also assumed that the remnants of the day leave their traces in the Vbw system . These would, so to speak, form the focal point for the transfer of unconscious ideas that would not be psychodynamically capable of consciousness without the corresponding remnants of the day . This model is equally suitable for describing healthy as well as disturbed psychological processes. The psychodynamic conditions of adequate development and affective occupation of different entities in the three-entity model are the subject of the assessment of the structural level .

Phase scheme of psychoanalysis

The scheme of the child's developmental phases described by Freud serves as a point of reference for the description of corresponding phase-specific basic conflicts. Freud distinguished between the oral , anal and phallic phases followed by the latency period and finally the genital phase . The ego can be weakened by disturbed development processes in childhood. As a result, the task of mediating between the opposing claims of the id and the superego cannot be optimally fulfilled. A phase-specific primary basic conflict is e.g. B. the Oedipus conflict . This is specific to the phallic phase.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Freud, Sigmund : The interpretation of dreams . [1900] Gesammelte Werke, Volume II / III, S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M, the following page references from: Paperback edition of the Fischer Library, Aug. 1966, (a) on Stw. “Unconscious Desires”: p. 454 ff .; (b) Re. “Wish fulfillment”: pp. 120, 448 ff., 459, (c) Re. “The dream is the guardian of sleep”: p. 199; (d) Re. “Unconscious desire as the driving force of dream formation”: p. 454; (e) Re. “Transfer”: p. 458 f.
  2. ↑ Sigmund Freud : The I and the It [1923]. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, study edition Volume III, 44 pages, ISBN 3-10-822723-8 ; Cape. 3. The ego and the superego (ego ideal)
  3. ^ A b c Philip G. Zimbardo , Richard J. Gerrig: Psychology . Pearson, Hallbergmoos near Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8273-7275-8 ; Re. “unconscious conflicts and child development”: p. 556
  4. ↑ Mentzos, Stavros : Neurotic Conflict Processing. Introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of neuroses, taking into account more recent perspectives. © 1982 Kindler, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6 ; Re. “Basic Conflict”: pp. 74–104, 96, 128; Re. "unconscious conflict": p. 75