Psychoanalysis in Psychology

The laws of psychology are many-sided and profound, and one of the most famous methods of studying the psyche in this science is psychoanalysis . It was the Austrian scientist Freud at the beginning of the last century who founded this trend.

According to his teachings, the psyche of each of us consists of:

• conscious part;
• preconscious;
• the unconscious.

In the preconscious, many fantasies and desires are stored. The latter can be redirected to the conscious, if we pay due attention to this. The fact that an individual is difficult to understand, because it contradicts his moral attitude, or is too painful for him, is located in the unconscious part. It is separated from the other two censorship. It is important to remember that the subject of a thorough study of psychoanalysis is the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.

Psychology notes that the deep tools of psychoanalysis include:

• analysis of random actions of a symptomatic type occurring in everyday life;
• analysis with the help of free associations;
• analysis, interpretation of dreams.

Practical psychology and psychoanalysis

With the help of the teachings of psychology, people find answers to questions of concern to their soul, and psychoanalysis only pushes to find the answer, sometimes narrow, private. Psychologists from all over the world work, first of all, with motivations of their client, his emotions, attitude to the surrounding reality, sensual images. Analysts concentrate on the being of man, his unconscious.

Regardless of these differences, there is a common in both psychology and psychoanalysis. So, for example, the Russian compiler of psychological reader Readers in his book "Psychology and psychoanalysis of character" describes both social and individual characters. He also does not forget about the psychoanalytic typology, for the inner world of everyone originates in the unconscious, in the secret corners of the soul.

This author also owns the book "Psychology and the psychoanalysis of power." It studies the phenomenon of domination of some over others, the psychology of the leader.

Psychoanalysis in social psychology

In this direction, psychoanalysis was called analytical psychology. It is aimed at examining the actions of the individual from the standpoint of her social role, motives in the period when she performs any kind of public activity.