1. Freud the Founder of Psychoanalysis
... as a device operating unconsciously to make the memory of painful or threatening events inaccessible to the conscious mind. Resistance is defined as the unconscious defense against awareness of repressed experiences in order to avoid the resulting anxiety. He traced the operation of unconscious processes, using the free associations of the patient to guide him in the interpretation of dreams and slips of speech. He also developed the theory of transference, the process by which emotional attitudes, established originally ... by a wish for attributes of the opposite sex. She also notes t...
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