Hello this is Sigmund Freud.  Your regular
instructor, Pat Johnson, can't be here
today, and since the lecture is on me, I
thought I'd give the lectures on my
theory of personality.  I called my theory
the psychoanalytic theory of personality,
where we dive into the psyche of the
person to understand the workings of the
mind.
The first thing you need to know about me is
that I was born in 1856 and died in 1939,
just as World War 2 was starting to get very
very very dire for me, my relatives and
all Jews in Europe.
I did my work during the Victorian era. 
If you know anything about the Victorian
era you know that this is a very
sexually repressed time period in
history.
Sex was not talked about, anything having
to do with sex was not referred to, even
those beautiful legs on furniture were
covered with table clothes so that they
would not sexually anyone.  And I thought
that sex was very important in
understanding the psyche and so I
developed my psychoanalytic theory with
psychosexual stages of personality
development.
I was a medical doctor by training; I
specialized in the field of neurology,
but I found that I had some clients who
had symptoms-- they had
symptoms that looked like neurological
symptoms but actually they did not have
anything wrong neurologically.  It was all
psychological. So I went to Vienna and I
studied under a man by the name of a
Charcot.  I went from Vienna to Paris and studied
under Charcot and Charcot used hypnotism
to put his his clients into a state of
hypnosis and under hypnosis they would
lose these strange symptoms like
paralysis or blindness.  So I took this
technique back to Vienna where I was
doing my work and I hypnotized my clients.
What I tried to tap into was their
unconscious.  Now the unconscious is what
is buried deep beneath the surface, so my
most famous depiction of the personality
is an iceberg floating in a sea.  And if
you've ever heard the term "just the
tip of the iceberg," you know that most is
buried deep beneath the surface.  So what
we are aware of is our consciousness and
so right now you have a brilliant
psychoanalyst talking to you, that is
what is in your conscience.  What is right
beneath the surface is the pre conscious.
So that would be this level right here
below the water.  But the biggest part of
your personality, the biggest level of
consciousness affecting you,
is the unconscious and so we will spend
most of our time in our theory tapping
into the unconscious and looking at how
that affects your personality.  So hang on,
because you are in for some very very
fascinating and brilliant BRILLIANT
lectures by me, Sigmund Freud and my
psychoanalytic theory.
