Oral presentation: Psychoanalysis
Good morning teacher, my name is Marco Leiva, I study psychology at University of Chile. Today I’m going to talk about psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic practice founded by neurologist Sigmund Freud in the 19th century that investigates people's emotional problems through the interpretation of certain acts and behaviors that the patient demonstrates. Among them are failed acts, dreams, free associations and one of the most important, the study of the conscious and the unconscious. The unconscious is a psychic state where the individual stores and represses all behaviors, impulses or instincts that cannot be done or satisfied in the conscious state for various reasons, such as them going against morality or being forbidden by society. These repressed impulses in the unconscious mind come to light through different behaviors or experiences lived by people, by dreams, by failed acts th...