Freud's iceberg theory says that human consciousness is like an iceberg floating on the water. What others and themselves can see is only a small part that leaks from the surface. They are often just the tip of the iceberg. But a large part of it is hidden underwater, which is not easy to be seen, and the deeper it goes, the deeper it gets. Most of them are subconscious things. And between the two is the subconscious, that is, the part between the water surface and the depth. It can be vaguely seen that under certain conditions, it will be clearly displayed to people.
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In fact, Freud's iceberg theory is a metaphor for his related theories about consciousness, but his iceberg theory can be said to be the basis of the iceberg theory that appeared later. The iceberg theory we see now can actually be regarded as the embodiment of Freud's iceberg theory. Refers to the related activities that consciousness and subconscious can have, which are divided into water icebergs and underwater icebergs. Because the current iceberg theory says that there are only behaviors and coping styles on the water surface, while things under the water surface are mainly longing, expectation, feeling and so on. Freud's consciousness refers to the activities that people can feel in their hearts and will show them, that is, some behaviors; The other two include repressed desires, instincts and so on. So there is a certain similarity.
But they are also different. Freud's iceberg theory mainly focuses on psychology, while the latter iceberg theory focuses on motivation.
Introduction to Freud's works
Freud's analysis of psychology has reached a deeper level, so his works are quite a lot.
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Freud's works mainly include: Analysis of Dreams, Psychopathology of Daily Life, Psychoanalysis Theory, New Theory of Psychoanalysis, Freud's Autobiography, A Fantasy Future, Research on Hysteria, Love Theory, Defects of Civilization, Totems and Taboos, and Moses and monotheism.
Freud's first book was Essays on the Wilderness, published in 1895. 1900, his second book, The Interpretation of Dreams, was published, which greatly improved his fame. In this book, he thinks that dreams are a kind of morbid psychological expression of people. He divided dreams into superficial dreams and deep potential dreams. To interpret dreams, we should use superficial things to discover people's subconscious behavior, thus helping the dreamer.
Daily Psychopathology is the embodiment of his dynamic psychology, and it is a book that analyzes the problems in people's daily life. Psychoanalytic theory and introduction to psychoanalysis are important parts of his psychoanalysis. In these two works, he analyzed excesses, mistakes, dreams and neurological diseases in people's daily life with the theory of psychological conflict and sexual deficiency.
Freud's works also include LucianFreud's autobiography, which is a book written through his various analyses of himself and his theory. This is an introductory book to understand his theory.
Freud was another genius, a genius of psychological research. Some of his works are very deep. To understand Freud's works, we must first read his relatively simple books.
What is Freud's explanation of dreams?
Freud believes that "dream" is a kind of satisfaction that repressed desires can't be realized in reality. And he boldly believes that all these unsatisfied repressed desires are mostly related to "sex". Dreams are a subconscious activity. In this subconscious activity, the main content is that the repressed desire is not directly expressed in the dream, but appears in a symbolic form through distorted behavior. Therefore, in Freud's analysis, dreams are symbolic. He believes that human dreams consist of "explicit dreams" and "implicit dreams". The former is the manifestation of dreams, and the latter is the survival mechanism of sleepers, who protect themselves by experiencing the pain of life again in their dreams.
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According to Freud's analysis of dreams, dreams are "the realization of wishes". But because the information in the subconscious is not bound by the brain, it is usually difficult for people to talk about it. The "investigator" in the subconscious does not allow it to enter the consciousness without modification. So in the dream, the subconscious mind relaxes this responsibility more than when it is awake, but it is still paying attention, so the subconscious mind is distorted in meaning to pass the exam. Similarly, the images in dreams are usually not what they appear. According to Freud's dream analysis, this requires a deeper answer with subconscious structure.
Freud predicted in his autobiographical study that since he began to write The Interpretation of Dreams, psychoanalysis has long been more than just a purely medical subject. This book has been published in Germany and France for a long time, and has led to literature and aesthetics, religious history and prehistory, folklore, education, mythology and other departments.