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Psychoanalysis (Psychology)
A theory of personality pioneered by the eminent psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856–1939). Freud defined psychology as the study of conscious experience driven by largely unconscious forces. He believed that traumas in early childhood can have lasting effects on the individual, influencing later thought and behavioral patterns. Moreover, Freud theorized that we are driven by unconscious forces and that these unconscious forces can be brought out through processes such as free association. He introduced this theory in 1900 in his book The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud explained the idea of the unconscious by comparing the human mind to an iceberg. The conscious part of the mind, or what the person is aware of, was thought to be the tip of the iceberg, while the much larger ...