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[Social representation of a psychoanalytical concept: what is the popular meaning of an "unconscious conflict"?].

Universität Leipzig, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Leipzig.
Psychiatrische Praxis (impact factor: 1.64). 06/2008; 35(4):182-6. DOI:10.1055/s-2006-940116 pp.182-6
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ABSTRACT A majority of the population regards unconscious conflict as a possible cause for depression or schizophrenia. We examine to what extent people associate psychoanalytical concepts with this term.
Population-based telephone survey (n = 1010), open questions about the meaning and origin of the term unconscious conflict.
5 % gave a definition with clearly psychoanalytical elements, another 13 % perceived an internal conflict. 24 % thought of a conflict between persons, 23 % had no answer. Regarding the origin of the term, 4 % associated Freud or psychoanalysis, 27 % psychology. For both questions, answers closer to Freudian ideas were more common in West compared to East Germany.
A concretised understanding far from Freud's original conception of unconscious conflict dominates, which is even stronger in the former communist parts of Germany. Psychoanalytical terms do not necessarily carry a psychoanalytical significance with the public.

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Keywords

27 % psychology
 
East Germany
 
extent people associate psychoanalytical concepts
 
former communist parts
 
Freud's original conception
 
Freudian ideas
 
Germany
 
persons
 
Population-based telephone survey
 
possible cause
 
psychoanalytical elements
 
psychoanalytical significance
 
Psychoanalytical terms
 
term unconscious conflict
 
unconscious conflict
 

Georg Schomerus