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If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   1. Freud (1856­1939)  Background: trained as a doctor, father of psychoanalysis, professor from Vienna  Main tenets: unconscious motivates behavior  Born with sexual energy (libido), which is the source of all‐mental functioning (thoughts).   Model of mind:  o Conscious‐ smallest, everything you’re thinking of doing right now, aware of, deals with senses, ex. Everything you do when you’re awake and happening now. o Preconscious‐ not thinking about now but when mentioned can bring into conscious, always working, ex. Teacher asking a question, something in the past.  o Unconscious‐ no access to it only way to access is with psychoanalysis; fantasy, wish, desires, unaware of, illogical & irrational, ex. Repressed memory, or dreams  o Unconscious wants to come up and consc