Question

Freud and his contemporaries viewed conversion symptoms as the result of:__________.

A) the displacement of unconscious anxiety onto a neutral or symbolic object.
B) the id trying to surpass the functioning of the ego and super ego.
C) the transfer of psychic energy attached to repressed emotions or memories to physical symptoms
D) the unconscious state of mind attempting to control the conscious state of mind.

Answer 1

the psychic energy attached to repressed emotions or memories to physical symptoms

Step-by-step explanation:

Disorder which include blindness, numbness, paralysis and other symptoms related TK the nervous system which when subjected to diagnosis doesn't give a clue of being caused a certain medical defect or ailment are referred to as conversion symptoms. These symptoms according to Sigmund Freud and other contemporary psychoanalytic researchers. Freud hypothesized that these mental conditions which are unexplainable using medicine are a function of unconscious conflict triggered when suppressed feelings, emotions or memories starts to manifests on the physical.

Answer 2

Freud and his contemporaries viewed conversion symptoms as the result of:

C. the transfer of psychic energy attached to repressed emotions or memories to physical symptoms.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis.

According to Freud and other specialists, conversion symptoms are physical symptoms unrelated to any diseases. For example, someone seems to have lost the ability to use his right hand. After undergoing examination and tests, nothing wrong is found, at least physically speaking. Freud believed that that symptom was indicative of repressed feelings or memories, as if the body were manifesting something trapped in that person's unconscious mind.