I appreciate Freud's theories and am so glad he made them, as they have led to so many more refined theories by others, however, I can't help but feel he did a great deal of "projecting" when it came to diagnosing people. Just because his own deep thoughts were sexual doesn't mean everyone else's are :p
I totally agree with the first part i wish more people think about Freud that way However i completely disagree with the second one i think thats just a low blow, is to easy to fall for that rationalization, and too simplistic for a mind like Freud, i think is rather a compendium of his experience with patience and his ideas about the world
This dude finished the first 5 pages of my book in 30 seconds I wish I'd discovered you earlier tbh you're amazing I'll keep watching these even after I finish my psych course
It is amazing how close Freud was to a great description of human psychology, but then totally failed to apply any of his concepts, like projection, to himself, which may have helped him trim away the crazy parts of his theories.
Don't apologize for the set design. Hanging those Rorschach prints was an excellent choice. High-contrast, symmetrical, recognizable; they are a really nice touch!
Herman Rorschach (no, not the guy from Watchmen) came up with the eponymous tests, but what do they mean? Why are we so fascinated with them despite the division in the world of Psychology? ***** tackles these topics as we take a closer look at personality in this episode of CrashCourse Psychology.
"unscientific, unreliable and dracula" A question that comes to mind, is the (ink) test falsifiable? Is there a state where the test is proven wrong or is it like a horoscope where you always can make some assumption?
+koljkimm It is NOT a test. Also there are several systems for scoring it (yes, it is scored) and some are much better than others. It is a common misconception that what you see (two bunnies or two broken corpses) is what is important. Actually, that is the least important part of the technique. It is scored but it usually takes a graduate student at least a year to learn how to score it and then interpret the scores. It is probably the best psychological assessment tool ever invented.
The examples you provide are comical, awesome, and necessary. Your delivery is what turns these informative videos into an enjoyable and engaging study time.
This was ace - I was finally able to get my head around id, ego and superego. Which I'd heard of often - and tried to look in to - but never really felt I understood clearly. Once again Crashcourse's visual communication is a huge help along with its verbal.
Im a freshman in highschool who was torn between biology and psychology and I started watching these videos, and I have made up my mind. I think in college I am going to become a psychology major!!!
Putting Freud, Jung, Maslow and Rogers in a 10 minute box is pretty tough, I think you guys could encourage people who got interested to actually take a closer look in all these stuff.
I found this episode of Crash Course absolutely amazing. I have been a psychologist for many years and am an expert on the Rorschach. You did a wonderful job of explaining the technique (it is not actually a test) which is very unusual. The whole series is wonderful. Well done!!!
At the first time i saw them(many years ago) , i actually see some stuff , but after i understand the full purpose of the test and what it's mean i became unable to see any meaningful picture !! ..... so i think it's rationality
the blots are nostalgic for me, because i used to see all sorts of possibilities in them, feeling exhilaration from tapping into what i believed was my potential. i notice that being further distracted by negative-mind (what potential i do not believe i have going for me, or how much of a human i am not) has worn me out- e.g., not being able to see much in clouds or blots, reiterating my drained esteem in "having an imagination" to myself. totally devastating.
That you're completely devoid of imagination and unable to associate with abstract concepts. One that experiences this can learn and grow and the brain can be "rewired" so there is hope. Best of luck!
Maxemus i didn’t really see much in the ink blots and i’m a music producer so i have no trouble with imagination or creativity or dealing with abstract concepts
02:06 To quote rise against: "How we survive is what makes us who we are." Wich may be simplistic but good as a starting point to see the personality as seperate from myth and mostly about past experiences.
So I'm studying psychoanalysis at college, and I just thought I'd share what this psychoanalyst who was a guest speaker told us about the Oedipus Complex. He believes that the Oedipus Complex has some basis, not in the sense that every child wants to sleep with his mother and kill his father, but think about it this way - the feelings towards the mother are a person's attraction to comfort and love, and the father represents the 'reality principle'. So little kids don't actually want to sleep with their mother, but they want to always stay in the comfort and safety she offers, while the father represents whoever makes that not possible to happen (hence, the 'reality principle'). He says that for this reason, when people have breakdowns, they go back to this phallic stage where they want to have that same comfort and safety their 'mother' offers. They go to mental institutions which becomes their 'mother' - their needs are taken care of, they feel that comfort and safety. In this situation, he says the reality principle is what your life outside is like. He finds a direct correlation between social & economic standing, and how soon they recover and leave the institution. If someone has friends and is wealthy, they'll be more encouraged to recover and leave. While people who've lost all of it want to just stay in this place that offers safety & comfort like their mother does.
I'm picking up what you're putting down, until you use "every child" and "he" in the same sentence. I was not aware that every child was male/male identifying. The more you know.
My bad, I didn't mean to come off as a male chauvinist. I only talked about 'he' cause the Oedipus story is about a male child. My way of framing it was pretty shitty, sorry for that...
I'm just a person who aspires to be a psychologist and I am seriously inlove with this topic especially wth Freud and his defense mechanisms and psychosexual stage lesson.
Alexia Urbina I received two As on my past psychology exams thanks to Crash Course!!! I loveeeeeeeeeee the CC crew!!! Plus, they helped me get a B in one of my Chem courses last year
Well, the Rorschach test does have valid use in the field today and it actually works. The theory that people will project their feelings, personality, memories and thus any potential psychosocial issues onto a Rorschach test as they are in any other situation is true. The criticism is that it can be so very difficult to determine where those projections come from and what they mean. That it means something and comes from somewhere is obvious, but I might have reasons that are psychosocially dysfunctional for very psychosocially functional reasons (such as saying that they look like body parts and blood splatter because I'm a surgeon or just having seen a splatter film earlier that day). Just like dreams can be analysed to determine things about the person having them it's not very useful on a personal level because the data required to make any useful conclusions or even knowing what to look for makes it rather useless in most cases. So, there are a couple of basic things that address this. Some of these things and a lot of the "secrets" behind the test is often kept out of the public mind on purpose. The images themselves, for example, haven't really been accessible for the general public until rather recently. This is because the patient knowing more about the test will change how the test goes and the primary way that the Rorschach test has become reliable is simply because there's such a huge amount of data on it. The test itself hasn't changed much in a hundred years and has been widely used since then. The uses for the test, what data we gather during the test and how we analyse that data are all things that have changed, however. There's a LOT of statistics on responses, behaviours and later diagnoses logged and available for many cultures and with such a vast amount of data it is just basic statistics that allow us to make some simple assumptions, even if we might not understand everything that goes on behind the answer. With just a purely statistical approach we can make many reasonable guesses with almost any data we collect, if we have a big enough back log, and with enough variety in responses given... even if those questions would happen to be useless in and of themselves (so it wouldn't matter if it's a Rorschach test or something else). Of course, the statistics look different and test results that look normal for one culture might be worrying in another and some responses might rarely occur outside some given culture (maybe a common animal that lives only there). There are a lot of other reasons as well, but I don't think I should go into that here and now. One of the biggest concerns with the statistical approach I've mentioned is that if something where to suddenly change the answers people give, the test could be statistically unreliable (at least until more and new data is gathered). Knowing how the test works and having looked at the images before could significantly change your test results... and while new results don't ruin the statistical method (unless you go out of your way to fake certain results) it does make the statistics we already have less applicable. All that information is available on the Internet, so you can look it up yourself if you feel the need to... just let your psychologist know before doing the test, if you ever do.
Crash Course Psychology is something I'm watching to go over what I learnt in the past and see where I need to go back to, know a lot of it so far so that's good. Taking Psychology to try and better understand myself and so I can study how others act and why.
I think there are important lessons that we learn as we develop. The Cookie Jar Experiment describes one of them: the lesson that others have their own perception. There is also the moment a child recognizes they are human like their parents. There is also the moment they realize they are growing bigger. When they realize that they are aging. When they realize they can control their body. There are small moments in our development that we all share.
Hank, you don't even know how much better these are than your older videos. You used to talk so fast and goofy I refused to watch your videos and only watched Johns. This is my first one back and you are talking slowly and I am really enjoying your style. Im super pumped now to because now I can go back and watch Crash Course Psychology instead of just US and World History!
Question: at 2:46 he says that there are 4 competing personality theories. I find it difficult to point them out in this episode, can someone please help me with this? Thank you !
Love the Watchmen reference when you were listing people of interest, and it is so funny you mentioned the deco because i always swear the bottom right picture is Harley Quinn.
A while ago in class, we read Lord of the Flies. After completing the book, we discussed how Id vs Ego and how they played a role within the boys on the island. I know in the Crash Course on this book John speaks against Golding's views on society, saying how it was tainted due to his experiences in war. Yet, I would say, for people who enjoy psychology as much as I do, I suggest reading Lord of the Flies and thinking about how Freud's ideas on personality, and the brain in general, effect the characters.
I think Freud's idea that the unconscious was all about sex was WAY more a product of his culture than an inherent human trait. I mean, he grew up during the Victorian era, which was not exactly known for celebrating sexual freedom.
Freud was absolutely correct; the two main drives are sex and aggression. This is true from nature itself; life aims to reproduce and dominate other life. Now we use them in healthy and constructive means. As for his other proposals, you can never prove or disprove them, for psychology is a philosophy of the mind. All we can do is stick to the one that shows the most positive results, while questioning its validity. Rorshack tests have been shown to work a vast majority of the time. Even I had a rorshack done, and it gave me the most in depth telling of my psyche. People tens to view psychology as a science and that it needs evidence 100%, but it cant. Neuroscience is the science of the Brain while Psychology is the study of the Mind. Plus, Freud was the first and only psychologist to invent a whole system of psychology. Since Freud, people have only make individual systems that are a part of Freuds whole. and yes, Oedipus complex is true. Dont believe me? Tell a psychologist of a dream you had, and if its a dream based on Oedipal desires (which everyone has, no matter how resolved or unresolved it is) if they tell you it, you will become angry and frustrated. This is unconscious defensiveness, which usually means a repressed truth is being pointed out.
+Xemptuous The fact that it works, doesn't mean it's true. those are two different things, particularly when the psychoanalytic theory is self-fulfilling. Virtually any sort of critisism to psychoanalysis can (and probably would) be labeled as a "intelectual resistance" or a resistance of any other kind, which is an actual thing Freud conceptualized. Basically an psychoanalyst can give you any form of interpretation and, because it mingles with suggestion and the already unbalanced power structure between a psychoanalyst and its patient, you would probably either accept it or deny it: and either of those reaction can be considered the unconscious defensiveness or the unconscious trying to reveal itself.
Thank you for this video. My summer English homework assumes I know about Freud's psychology work--and nobody has ever taught me anything about it. Now I can complete the assignment! =)
I'm addicted to this series. I wonder if there are any INTP'S out there ( Myers Briggs personality test) watching this for fun out there like me. I wonder how all this stuff relates to commonplace books because it seems like some of the ideas were from psychology on the organization factor of it. Commonplace books existed before the 19th century though. I lost my thought.Thought Salad...
Not that I don't adore the psychology videos, but is world history starting this week or was the preview video like literature part 2, with a few weeks break before the series starts?
I don't get how the "sexual feelings towards mother and hate/jealousy" towards father thing is only referring the the phycology of males. I want to know how females go through those stages too according to this guy. But doesn't nature HIGHLY prevent us from being sexually attracted to family members due to inbreeding? Don't kids simply look up to their parents? I don't really understand this theory.
Freud argued that the existence of a universal taboo against incest did not suggest a natural revulsion. After all, why would everyone so emphatically forbid something no one wanted to do? Rather, he argued that incestuous attraction was the norm. Human society discourages it because it creates self contained families, instead of forcing families to intermarry and create new bonds within the community. Later research would show that, contrary to Freud's beliefs, there is a natural resistance to incest, at least between people raised as siblings.
There is no such thing as natural revulsion; You have millions of appeals and just as many criticisms, but not for whole subjects. every so now and agian you see people devlope fetishs for minute details like feet or Hair- Think of your appeal as like that but not so focused- youre judging every detail and what you like or dislike may not always be so obvious. So maybe youre not gay- there however may be a person of your sex that matches up with all your appeals- nothing is absolute.
I like to believe that it is purely chemical The pheromones of one's gender opposite parent is often the first we are exposed to It manifests it self in a way when we become attracted to people who are similar to that parent In my opinion it works for both genders It's just that Oedipus was male and the patriarchy
I dislike the concept as well, but it appears to be a fact that boys predominently side with their mothers and girls with their fathers unless they are utter failures. You see it predominently in divorces. Also the parents tend to favor the kids of opposite gender. I don't see it as sexual attraction, but it might affect the later choice of partners (thus having similar traits if you liked it from your parent; or the opposite if not)
along with the idea of an electra complex as mentioned previously, some of freud's first test subjects that lead to a few of the ideas were...less that ideal of what would usually be accepted (especially by today's standards). it's been a while so i don't remember some of the specifics, sorry: he had small sample (under 10) and it was lacing in variety. all were well-to-do austrian females. as he applied the use of psychoanalysis, he began to uncover stories from these women definite signs of sexual abuse, specifically, incestuous sexual abuse. his initial reports and studies had more to do with those findings. this next part is up for debate, but the psych and scientific community as well as social ideals did not sit well with his first reports (understandably so- incest abuse within wealthy families...) however, after that happened, freud began to alter some of his findings with the women and it developed into the freudian theory we have now. his test sample size and variations, along with other factors are a part of why some of his theories (oedipus complex, mainly) are studied more from a historical approach than taken for its accuracy. however, many say he had some good points in concepts of psychoanalysis, and a few other ideas that spring-boarded further study. thus endeth the lesson...
Someone I know told me a story of how he once tried to get a pilot's license to drive a plane. As part of a psychological test, he was given a Rorschach ink blot test, and one of his answers was something along the lines of "that looks like the ruins of a city that was bombed in a war" - they denied the license and he had to take the test again.
The what you learned about bit at the end makes me think that they want these to be used as educational videos which could be used as but teachers and lecturers are not fans of TH-cam videos especially teachers i have found.
I know multiple teachers at my school that use Crash Course videos in class to cover required lessons in the curriculum so that students may better understand it than a boring lecture delivered by their same old boring teacher. It's quite effective actually, I think that students might be more intrigued by a technologically "hip" TH-cam video than their monotonous teacher, haha.
TheLordboki Read TFiOS for your answer. In short though, people with chronic illness that are in constant danger of death are in no way unable to contemplate the meaning of life, or are forced to be perpetually unhappy.
Platinum Book Well, it does have holes. Solders risk their life for "higher goals", but can still be happy. Many, however, snap when the cause they are fighting for doesn't have merit or after they get discharged.
I just love personality. To me, it is the most interesting part of psychology. Hoping to learn about the Jungian functions and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator!!!
I don’t know what makes me me but a lot of the times I feel like I’m more than one person,like when in morning when I’m supposed to get up for work,there’s a voice in my head says,”Sleep for another minute,you’re not gonna be late for work.” And another voice says,”Get up! You are being lazy! It’s time to go to work!” And a third voice is like,”Well,I don’t know what to do.” Do I have some kind of mental disorder or does everyone feel this way one time or another?
tsuich00i yeeeah no. First of all, djow314 specifically said "physics". And have you seen Aristotelian physics? He was one of the first physicists, but he got it unbelievably wrong. What we now know as physics only came around during the middle ages in the Arab world, and was not really made into a formal system until the European Renaissance.
I got a little more excited than I should have when I got admitted to a behavioral health facility one time and a doctor told me that he'd be doing a Rorschach test on me.
it makes sense. this is an educational channel and that is an educational video. you learn that the best adjective to describe a unicorn's mane is 'smiles'
"Womb Envy". Yep, totally jealous of not being capable of experiencing 8 to 9 months of extreme discomfort and mood swings punctuated by the worst pain imaginable and finished with a nice serving of post-partum depression.
***** If I'm not mistaken, Freud believed that women "discovered" they didn't have a penis. Rather than just know or accept or something. Not sure as I'm just watching these for fun and I haven't looked it up. Edit: I just got your name. :p
NexaEntertainment That's.. Interesting. And possibly quite untrue. He had a lot of good theories but not everything he said should be taken as gospel, anyway. I must reinsert that I have nothing against Freud, but I wonder what made him come to the whole penis envy conclusion. In my (mostly unfounded) perspective, that entire theory sounds like a stupid one. Maybe I should do some research when I have the time! Thanks for your reply, I'd love to hear what you think. Also, lol yeah, old Supernatural reference. A lot of people think I'm trying to be offensive when I reply to them, and for others they wield it as a weapon to attack me when they have nothing to say back, like, "YOU'RE the assbutt, assbutt!" it's happened one too many times when I disagree with someone politely and it annoys them xD
Freud is awesome! People be hating cuz there is no direct formula to explain his research in numbers. It's not Physics dammit, but that doesn't mean he's no Einstein!
+Johnny Midnite You can't ignore that he did a heavy amount of self-projection when it came to diagnosing people. Just because he was attracted to his mother as a child doesn't mean everyone is. He helped advance things in the field of psychology to be sure, but that was mostly due to his followers going on to show many of his theories were false. Also, Freud never said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
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Who is this Rorschach guy and why does he keep painting pictures of my parents fighting?
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I appreciate Freud's theories and am so glad he made them, as they have led to so many more refined theories by others, however, I can't help but feel he did a great deal of "projecting" when it came to diagnosing people. Just because his own deep thoughts were sexual doesn't mean everyone else's are :p
+biguattipoptropica Technically it does, but only for transgender females whom want to be male.
+Shawn Phelps have your thoughts been that deep?
+Shawn Phelps What do you mean by "sexual"? The Freudian idea of sexuality, or just genitalia?
+biguattipoptropica Well to be fair, we humans are pretty jealous of just about everything and everyone we see.
I totally agree with the first part i wish more people think about Freud that way
However i completely disagree with the second one i think thats just a low blow, is to easy to fall for that rationalization, and too simplistic for a mind like Freud, i think is rather a compendium of his experience with patience and his ideas about the world
This dude finished the first 5 pages of my book in 30 seconds I wish I'd discovered you earlier tbh you're amazing I'll keep watching these even after I finish my psych course
It is amazing how close Freud was to a great description of human psychology, but then totally failed to apply any of his concepts, like projection, to himself, which may have helped him trim away the crazy parts of his theories.
Thank you to the animation team for animating Freud snorting a massive line of Cocaine off of his sleeve in the first scene. Made my day.
Don't apologize for the set design. Hanging those Rorschach prints was an excellent choice. High-contrast, symmetrical, recognizable; they are a really nice touch!
Kanye probably sees himself in every one of those tests
Necro polis this is the best comment god dammit
For You no, You are the best : )
Amen, Kanye is christian now, hallelujah
Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but I suspect he was thinking about slurping slongs.
I would have thought that to him a cigar is somehow phallic.
He actually didn't say it, it was some journalist.
Juan Garay actually no
This comment section is ancient
ok but can we discuss the irony of the fact that someone named karen HORNEY focuses on non-sexual motivations???
finals got us all like........
Herman Rorschach (no, not the guy from Watchmen) came up with the eponymous tests, but what do they mean? Why are we so fascinated with them despite the division in the world of Psychology? ***** tackles these topics as we take a closer look at personality in this episode of CrashCourse Psychology.
Take 1 cup each of regression, projection, rationalization and denial. Mix well. Makes 1 internet.
"unscientific, unreliable and dracula"
A question that comes to mind, is the (ink) test falsifiable? Is there a state where the test is proven wrong or is it like a horoscope where you always can make some assumption?
koljkimm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test#Validity
+koljkimm It is NOT a test. Also there are several systems for scoring it (yes, it is scored) and some are much better than others. It is a common misconception that what you see (two bunnies or two broken corpses) is what is important. Actually, that is the least important part of the technique. It is scored but it usually takes a graduate student at least a year to learn how to score it and then interpret the scores. It is probably the best psychological assessment tool ever invented.
+TheFireflyGrave haha more like one GALLON OF EACH
1:38 when Freud wipes his nose then starts tweeking. I see what you did there 😅
XD
Im in LOVE with the Coco... Coco...
6:19 "These pants totally still fit!"
He was so cuuuute HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
The examples you provide are comical, awesome, and necessary. Your delivery is what turns these informative videos into an enjoyable and engaging study time.
This was ace - I was finally able to get my head around id, ego and superego. Which I'd heard of often - and tried to look in to - but never really felt I understood clearly. Once again Crashcourse's visual communication is a huge help along with its verbal.
Im a freshman in highschool who was torn between biology and psychology and I started watching these videos, and I have made up my mind. I think in college I am going to become a psychology major!!!
Thank's for the B- grade. Really, thanks. I would have failed had it not been for you
Putting Freud, Jung, Maslow and Rogers in a 10 minute box is pretty tough, I think you guys could encourage people who got interested to actually take a closer look in all these stuff.
0:00 Should I be worried that both the images look like Space Invaders to me?
Yes, you have a month to live before you waste all your on old arcade games and starve.
nope i do too
I think that's what everybody sees! The test is probably rigged!
Only if you have SEEN the space invaders that they look like...
***** i got 1228 real followers within a day from *instaPHAMOUS. COM*
I found this episode of Crash Course absolutely amazing. I have been a psychologist for many years and am an expert on the Rorschach. You did a wonderful job of explaining the technique (it is not actually a test) which is very unusual. The whole series is wonderful. Well done!!!
I've always seen the inkblot on the top right of the set as a uterus so????
What does it mean if I actually found nothing within the blots?
At the first time i saw them(many years ago) , i actually see some stuff , but after i understand the full purpose of the test and what it's mean i became unable to see any meaningful picture !! ..... so i think it's rationality
the blots are nostalgic for me, because i used to see all sorts of possibilities in them, feeling exhilaration from tapping into what i believed was my potential. i notice that being further distracted by negative-mind (what potential i do not believe i have going for me, or how much of a human i am not) has worn me out- e.g., not being able to see much in clouds or blots, reiterating my drained esteem in "having an imagination" to myself. totally devastating.
That you're completely devoid of imagination and unable to associate with abstract concepts. One that experiences this can learn and grow and the brain can be "rewired" so there is hope. Best of luck!
Maxemus i didn’t really see much in the ink blots and i’m a music producer so i have no trouble with imagination or creativity or dealing with abstract concepts
02:06
To quote rise against: "How we survive is what makes us who we are." Wich may be simplistic but good as a starting point to see the personality as seperate from myth and mostly about past experiences.
Seeing Fluffle Puff dancing on a rainbow at 11:12 made my day!
Hurm interesting
+Rorschach HEY! I'M THE REAL RORSCHACH!
Rorschach Hurm
+Mysterion just don't mention me in your argument. sincerely, God =)
yeah, the real one
So I'm studying psychoanalysis at college, and I just thought I'd share what this psychoanalyst who was a guest speaker told us about the Oedipus Complex. He believes that the Oedipus Complex has some basis, not in the sense that every child wants to sleep with his mother and kill his father, but think about it this way - the feelings towards the mother are a person's attraction to comfort and love, and the father represents the 'reality principle'. So little kids don't actually want to sleep with their mother, but they want to always stay in the comfort and safety she offers, while the father represents whoever makes that not possible to happen (hence, the 'reality principle').
He says that for this reason, when people have breakdowns, they go back to this phallic stage where they want to have that same comfort and safety their 'mother' offers. They go to mental institutions which becomes their 'mother' - their needs are taken care of, they feel that comfort and safety. In this situation, he says the reality principle is what your life outside is like. He finds a direct correlation between social & economic standing, and how soon they recover and leave the institution. If someone has friends and is wealthy, they'll be more encouraged to recover and leave. While people who've lost all of it want to just stay in this place that offers safety & comfort like their mother does.
awesome description
I'm picking up what you're putting down, until you use "every child" and "he" in the same sentence. I was not aware that every child was male/male identifying. The more you know.
My bad, I didn't mean to come off as a male chauvinist. I only talked about 'he' cause the Oedipus story is about a male child. My way of framing it was pretty shitty, sorry for that...
Siddhant Tilokani no problem, sorry I got a bit saucy about it ^.^
I'm just a person who aspires to be a psychologist and I am seriously inlove with this topic especially wth Freud and his defense mechanisms and psychosexual stage lesson.
Anybody have finals tomorrow
+kotie boatz Yes!!
I have an exam todayyyyy
+Helen McNeil Tomorrow, gotta get ready!!
Alexia Urbina I received two As on my past psychology exams thanks to Crash Course!!! I loveeeeeeeeeee the CC crew!!! Plus, they helped me get a B in one of my Chem courses last year
Nope!!
Well, the Rorschach test does have valid use in the field today and it actually works. The theory that people will project their feelings, personality, memories and thus any potential psychosocial issues onto a Rorschach test as they are in any other situation is true. The criticism is that it can be so very difficult to determine where those projections come from and what they mean. That it means something and comes from somewhere is obvious, but I might have reasons that are psychosocially dysfunctional for very psychosocially functional reasons (such as saying that they look like body parts and blood splatter because I'm a surgeon or just having seen a splatter film earlier that day). Just like dreams can be analysed to determine things about the person having them it's not very useful on a personal level because the data required to make any useful conclusions or even knowing what to look for makes it rather useless in most cases.
So, there are a couple of basic things that address this. Some of these things and a lot of the "secrets" behind the test is often kept out of the public mind on purpose. The images themselves, for example, haven't really been accessible for the general public until rather recently. This is because the patient knowing more about the test will change how the test goes and the primary way that the Rorschach test has become reliable is simply because there's such a huge amount of data on it. The test itself hasn't changed much in a hundred years and has been widely used since then. The uses for the test, what data we gather during the test and how we analyse that data are all things that have changed, however. There's a LOT of statistics on responses, behaviours and later diagnoses logged and available for many cultures and with such a vast amount of data it is just basic statistics that allow us to make some simple assumptions, even if we might not understand everything that goes on behind the answer. With just a purely statistical approach we can make many reasonable guesses with almost any data we collect, if we have a big enough back log, and with enough variety in responses given... even if those questions would happen to be useless in and of themselves (so it wouldn't matter if it's a Rorschach test or something else). Of course, the statistics look different and test results that look normal for one culture might be worrying in another and some responses might rarely occur outside some given culture (maybe a common animal that lives only there).
There are a lot of other reasons as well, but I don't think I should go into that here and now. One of the biggest concerns with the statistical approach I've mentioned is that if something where to suddenly change the answers people give, the test could be statistically unreliable (at least until more and new data is gathered). Knowing how the test works and having looked at the images before could significantly change your test results... and while new results don't ruin the statistical method (unless you go out of your way to fake certain results) it does make the statistics we already have less applicable. All that information is available on the Internet, so you can look it up yourself if you feel the need to... just let your psychologist know before doing the test, if you ever do.
I love how the tought bubble for Freud is on cocaine the first second he's on screen.
Crash Course Psychology is something I'm watching to go over what I learnt in the past and see where I need to go back to, know a lot of it so far so that's good. Taking Psychology to try and better understand myself and so I can study how others act and why.
I really hope they cover the Myers-Briggs next week, as that has become a very popular personality study
JadedNightwing yay I like
What was with Freud and sex, anyway? Why was Freud so obsessed with sex? What was with that? Anyone know?
He studied hysteria. Also, he listened to Wilhelm Fliess too much.
***** Well, there's me, for instance. I think you'll find there are plenty of others like me, too.
Ms3queen Freud was projecting ;)
+Ms3queen Sex is honestly the farthest thing from my mind at this point in my life.
+Phi6er asexuals.
I think there are important lessons that we learn as we develop. The Cookie Jar Experiment describes one of them: the lesson that others have their own perception. There is also the moment a child recognizes they are human like their parents. There is also the moment they realize they are growing bigger. When they realize that they are aging. When they realize they can control their body. There are small moments in our development that we all share.
Hank, you don't even know how much better these are than your older videos. You used to talk so fast and goofy I refused to watch your videos and only watched Johns. This is my first one back and you are talking slowly and I am really enjoying your style. Im super pumped now to because now I can go back and watch Crash Course Psychology instead of just US and World History!
😂 "these pants totally still fit" lmao I'm dying
Question: at 2:46 he says that there are 4 competing personality theories. I find it difficult to point them out in this episode, can someone please help me with this?
Thank you !
Love the Watchmen reference when you were listing people of interest, and it is so funny you mentioned the deco because i always swear the bottom right picture is Harley Quinn.
You pronounced Carl’s last name wrong :/
But thanks... you helped me get a 90 on my AP psych final exam!
Actually, taking into account that he (the guy in the vid) is American and has a (slight) accent, he pronounced it correctly.
Using the word "titillating" when talking about Sigmund Freud. I see what you did there.
more helpful than my college textbook. bless this channel
the should do grammar Crash Courses
i want a linguistics crash course actually!
That would be awesome!!
Yes, there should also be art history course and more mythology 😁
lol I think you mean "They" should do "Crash Course Grammar lessons," as opposed to "the should do grammar Crash Courses."
A while ago in class, we read Lord of the Flies. After completing the book, we discussed how Id vs Ego and how they played a role within the boys on the island. I know in the Crash Course on this book John speaks against Golding's views on society, saying how it was tainted due to his experiences in war. Yet, I would say, for people who enjoy psychology as much as I do, I suggest reading Lord of the Flies and thinking about how Freud's ideas on personality, and the brain in general, effect the characters.
I think Freud's idea that the unconscious was all about sex was WAY more a product of his culture than an inherent human trait. I mean, he grew up during the Victorian era, which was not exactly known for celebrating sexual freedom.
Adam Curtis - Century of the self. View this subject matter in much more detail. Well worth watching.
Freud was absolutely correct; the two main drives are sex and aggression. This is true from nature itself; life aims to reproduce and dominate other life. Now we use them in healthy and constructive means. As for his other proposals, you can never prove or disprove them, for psychology is a philosophy of the mind. All we can do is stick to the one that shows the most positive results, while questioning its validity. Rorshack tests have been shown to work a vast majority of the time. Even I had a rorshack done, and it gave me the most in depth telling of my psyche. People tens to view psychology as a science and that it needs evidence 100%, but it cant. Neuroscience is the science of the Brain while Psychology is the study of the Mind. Plus, Freud was the first and only psychologist to invent a whole system of psychology. Since Freud, people have only make individual systems that are a part of Freuds whole. and yes, Oedipus complex is true. Dont believe me? Tell a psychologist of a dream you had, and if its a dream based on Oedipal desires (which everyone has, no matter how resolved or unresolved it is) if they tell you it, you will become angry and frustrated. This is unconscious defensiveness, which usually means a repressed truth is being pointed out.
+Xemptuous The fact that it works, doesn't mean it's true. those are two different things, particularly when the psychoanalytic theory is self-fulfilling. Virtually any sort of critisism to psychoanalysis can (and probably would) be labeled as a "intelectual resistance" or a resistance of any other kind, which is an actual thing Freud conceptualized. Basically an psychoanalyst can give you any form of interpretation and, because it mingles with suggestion and the already unbalanced power structure between a psychoanalyst and its patient, you would probably either accept it or deny it: and either of those reaction can be considered the unconscious defensiveness or the unconscious trying to reveal itself.
I love that Rorschach showed up as the character from 'The Watchmen' in the lineup of household names.
6:16 I found myself laughing for some reason
It was very helpful to learn about the historical development of this ideas and the transition to more modern systems of understanding
11:11 Is that a wild Flufflepuff I see???
PINK FLUFFY UNICORN DANCING ON RAINBOWS!!!
Awesome, there are some bronies in Thought Cafê
;)
Thank you for this video. My summer English homework assumes I know about Freud's psychology work--and nobody has ever taught me anything about it. Now I can complete the assignment! =)
I really liked freud freaking out nice touch
I'm addicted to this series. I wonder if there are any INTP'S out there ( Myers Briggs personality test) watching this for fun out there like me. I wonder how all this stuff relates to commonplace books because it seems like some of the ideas were from psychology on the organization factor of it. Commonplace books existed before the 19th century though. I lost my thought.Thought Salad...
Not that I don't adore the psychology videos, but is world history starting this week or was the preview video like literature part 2, with a few weeks break before the series starts?
***** Odd because I didn't saw it yesterday when it was supposed to came out that day...
Hank you're the best. Thank you so much for these videos! These videos are the one of the only things that keeps learning interesting and fun!
So how come we say that dictators have a huge ego but not a huge id?
Ego's more famous; most people don't even know what id is.
Also in all analysis the patient is the therapist, known as the analysand meaning "analyser"
i saw nothing in either.
ditto
Avia A charizard
***** damn bruh
4:51 is probably my favorite thought-bubble animation ever.
and by coke, he means cocaine, kids.
Staying up all night watching crash course is the only way
I don't get how the "sexual feelings towards mother and hate/jealousy" towards father thing is only referring the the phycology of males. I want to know how females go through those stages too according to this guy.
But doesn't nature HIGHLY prevent us from being sexually attracted to family members due to inbreeding? Don't kids simply look up to their parents? I don't really understand this theory.
Freud argued that the existence of a universal taboo against incest did not suggest a natural revulsion. After all, why would everyone so emphatically forbid something no one wanted to do? Rather, he argued that incestuous attraction was the norm. Human society discourages it because it creates self contained families, instead of forcing families to intermarry and create new bonds within the community.
Later research would show that, contrary to Freud's beliefs, there is a natural resistance to incest, at least between people raised as siblings.
There is no such thing as natural revulsion; You have millions of appeals and just as many criticisms, but not for whole subjects. every so now and agian you see people devlope fetishs for minute details like feet or Hair- Think of your appeal as like that but not so focused- youre judging every detail and what you like or dislike may not always be so obvious. So maybe youre not gay- there however may be a person of your sex that matches up with all your appeals- nothing is absolute.
I like to believe that it is purely chemical
The pheromones of one's gender opposite parent is often the first we are exposed to
It manifests it self in a way when we become attracted to people who are similar to that parent
In my opinion it works for both genders
It's just that Oedipus was male and the patriarchy
I dislike the concept as well, but it appears to be a fact that boys predominently side with their mothers and girls with their fathers unless they are utter failures. You see it predominently in divorces. Also the parents tend to favor the kids of opposite gender.
I don't see it as sexual attraction, but it might affect the later choice of partners (thus having similar traits if you liked it from your parent; or the opposite if not)
along with the idea of an electra complex as mentioned previously, some of freud's first test subjects that lead to a few of the ideas were...less that ideal of what would usually be accepted (especially by today's standards).
it's been a while so i don't remember some of the specifics, sorry:
he had small sample (under 10) and it was lacing in variety. all were well-to-do austrian females. as he applied the use of psychoanalysis, he began to uncover stories from these women definite signs of sexual abuse, specifically, incestuous sexual abuse. his initial reports and studies had more to do with those findings. this next part is up for debate, but the psych and scientific community as well as social ideals did not sit well with his first reports (understandably so- incest abuse within wealthy families...) however, after that happened, freud began to alter some of his findings with the women and it developed into the freudian theory we have now.
his test sample size and variations, along with other factors are a part of why some of his theories (oedipus complex, mainly) are studied more from a historical approach than taken for its accuracy. however, many say he had some good points in concepts of psychoanalysis, and a few other ideas that spring-boarded further study.
thus endeth the lesson...
Someone I know told me a story of how he once tried to get a pilot's license to drive a plane. As part of a psychological test, he was given a Rorschach ink blot test, and one of his answers was something along the lines of "that looks like the ruins of a city that was bombed in a war" - they denied the license and he had to take the test again.
Brooo, why has no one ever questioned why this guy knows EVERYTHING to do with every subject? Is it just me or is that not normal looool
When he kept showing Rorschach from Watchmen I got so happy lmao
The what you learned about bit at the end makes me think that they want these to be used as educational videos which could be used as but teachers and lecturers are not fans of TH-cam videos especially teachers i have found.
I know multiple teachers at my school that use Crash Course videos in class to cover required lessons in the curriculum so that students may better understand it than a boring lecture delivered by their same old boring teacher. It's quite effective actually, I think that students might be more intrigued by a technologically "hip" TH-cam video than their monotonous teacher, haha.
My science teacher often allows us to play Hank Greens stuff, especially when talking about theories.
I am a teacher and I use youtube... (I hope that I'm not too boring or monotonous, rajeqwit ...)
Ive been binge watching
1:40 Freud is high out of his mind? :D
This is one of my favorite topics in Psychology.
Is it weird that I watch these for fun?
We all do
Jeffrey Dusome Unless you watch them for school. But I don't.
I genuinely adore this man. What a diamond. :)
I'm stuck at the belongingness and love level... I hate myself.
Same here, mate. Maslov's pyramid makes so much sense to me.
Idk. Maslow's hierarchy is pretty BS if you ask me. It seems to only work in extreme cases.
FloridatedH2O Can you name one example where people who are hungry, in danger or stressed functon propely and are productive and happy.
TheLordboki Read TFiOS for your answer. In short though, people with chronic illness that are in constant danger of death are in no way unable to contemplate the meaning of life, or are forced to be perpetually unhappy.
Platinum Book Well, it does have holes. Solders risk their life for "higher goals", but can still be happy. Many, however, snap when the cause they are fighting for doesn't have merit or after they get discharged.
I just love personality. To me, it is the most interesting part of psychology. Hoping to learn about the Jungian functions and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator!!!
Damn I'm the youngest comment here
In Game of Thrones terminology:
My Superego-Danerys Targaryen
My Ego-Tyrion Lannister/Jon Snow
My Id: Jaime Lannister
is that a picture of a ??
in the top right of the?
a lady's internal components?
Noam Chongsky Yeah, I've always thought that one looks like the female reproductive organs! None of the others look like anything
I don't even do psychology, I just find this really interesting
2019 psych ap exam cram
yep
To this day this channel, like said in our day and time, keeps it real. Great work yet again!!!
To be sexual or not to be sexual?
That is the question.
I freaking lost it when Freud snorted coke and started twitching! Omg so great!
Doctor Freuds topic became afflicting (DFTBA)
This is such a wonderful series. I can't wait for more. Thank you Hank and Crash Course!
1:36 Was Freud high? I mean, he had a thing for cocaine.
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of needs from the Holistic -Dynamic Theory. self - actualization is highest needs in the hierarchy.
1:38 I'm freud and I do cocococaine!
11:11 PFUDOR
Love that song
I don’t know what makes me me but a lot of the times I feel like I’m more than one person,like when in morning when I’m supposed to get up for work,there’s a voice in my head says,”Sleep for another minute,you’re not gonna be late for work.” And another voice says,”Get up! You are being lazy! It’s time to go to work!” And a third voice is like,”Well,I don’t know what to do.” Do I have some kind of mental disorder or does everyone feel this way one time or another?
Freud is the Karl Marx of Psychology.
Freud is to psychology as Aristotle is to physics (i.e. absolute bonkers)
djow314 You try opening the doorway to a major school of thought and then you can come back and talk to us about what is "bonkers".
Marx wasn't right about anything. He just took God out of the equation.
Sebastian m Oh, that explains a lot.
tsuich00i yeeeah no. First of all, djow314 specifically said "physics". And have you seen Aristotelian physics? He was one of the first physicists, but he got it unbelievably wrong. What we now know as physics only came around during the middle ages in the Arab world, and was not really made into a formal system until the European Renaissance.
I was intrigued until I spotted the PFUDOR. Now I'm just trying to contain my intense and undying love for this channel.
I see two bears high-fiving
tails1152 eyyyy fallout amirite
I got a little more excited than I should have when I got admitted to a behavioral health facility one time and a doctor told me that he'd be doing a Rorschach test on me.
flufflepuff, really?
There's never a bad time for Flufflepuff.
A brony among us
Pink Fluffing References Dancing On TH-cam Videos
it makes sense. this is an educational channel and that is an educational video. you learn that the best adjective to describe a unicorn's mane is 'smiles'
WilhelmScreamer yes! One of life's greatest joys is the serendipity of finding pony references in random places on the internet like this
i feel like as these episodes went on, you deviated more and more from the *neuro-biology* of things, which really helps me understand more.
Why all the sex pictures on the walls?
They're Rorschach ink blot tests.
Jeffrey Dusome I believe he was joking.
This was more useful and cohesive than my psych 101 textbook by far, not to mention more entertaining. Keep up the good work!
"Womb Envy".
Yep, totally jealous of not being capable of experiencing 8 to 9 months of extreme discomfort and mood swings punctuated by the worst pain imaginable and finished with a nice serving of post-partum depression.
Penis envy is also a terrible name.
Lfcinjapan Why would I be envious of not having a penis, though? How did penis envy even come to be a thing? Genuinely curious.
***** If I'm not mistaken, Freud believed that women "discovered" they didn't have a penis. Rather than just know or accept or something. Not sure as I'm just watching these for fun and I haven't looked it up.
Edit: I just got your name. :p
NexaEntertainment That's.. Interesting. And possibly quite untrue. He had a lot of good theories but not everything he said should be taken as gospel, anyway. I must reinsert that I have nothing against Freud, but I wonder what made him come to the whole penis envy conclusion. In my (mostly unfounded) perspective, that entire theory sounds like a stupid one. Maybe I should do some research when I have the time! Thanks for your reply, I'd love to hear what you think.
Also, lol yeah, old Supernatural reference. A lot of people think I'm trying to be offensive when I reply to them, and for others they wield it as a weapon to attack me when they have nothing to say back, like, "YOU'RE the assbutt, assbutt!" it's happened one too many times when I disagree with someone politely and it annoys them xD
Hank Green!! I have seen so many of your videos. You are the reading voice in my head when I read textbooks!
Freud is awesome! People be hating cuz there is no direct formula to explain his research in numbers. It's not Physics dammit, but that doesn't mean he's no Einstein!
Johnny Midnite he is not. Only Einstein is Einstein.
Transyst What about Mr. and Mrs. Einstein? They're Einsteins too.
Bryan Cotto the gender part wasn't specified, so the formula still applies.
+Johnny Midnite You can't ignore that he did a heavy amount of self-projection when it came to diagnosing people. Just because he was attracted to his mother as a child doesn't mean everyone is. He helped advance things in the field of psychology to be sure, but that was mostly due to his followers going on to show many of his theories were false. Also, Freud never said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"