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Midterm - Freud
5010 Midterm Freud Concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ID | Biological component, unconscious |
| ID | Primary source of psychic energy and the seat of the instincts |
| ID | Is blind, demanding, insistent, illogical, amoral, and driven to satisfy instinctual needs |
| ID | Ruled by the pleasure principle which is aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain and gaining pleasure |
| EGO | Psychological component |
| EGO | Governs, controls and regulates the personality |
| EGO | Mediates between instincts and the surrounding environment |
| EGO | Reality principle, does realistic and logical thinking |
| EGO | Check and controls the blind impulses of the ID |
| SUPEREGO | Social component |
| SUPEREGO | Includes a person’s moral code and is concerned with what is right and wrong or good and bad |
| SUPEREGO | Represents the ideal and strives for perfection |
| SUPEREGO | Inhibits the impulses of the ID |
| SUPEREGO | persuades the EGO to substitute moralistic goals for realistic ones |
| SUPEREGO | Related to psychological rewards (feelings of pride and self-love) and punishment (feelings of guilt and inferiority) |
| Death instincts | accounts for aggressive drive, managing the unconscious wish to die or hurt ourselves is a major challenge to humans |
| Reality anxiety | fear of danger from the external world with the level being proportionate to the degree of real threat |
| Neurotic anxiety | fear of instincts getting out hand and causes one to do something |
| Moral anxiety | fear of one’s own conscience |
| Anxiety | result of repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experience that emerge to the surface of awareness |
| Anxiety | state of tension that motivate us |
| Anxiety | develops out of conflict among the id, ego and superego over control of the available psychic energy |
| Anxiety | function is to warn about impeding danger |
| Repression | threatening or painful thoughts and feelings are excluded from awareness |
| Denial | “closing one’s eyes” to the existence of a threatening aspect of reality |
| Reaction Formation | actively expressing the opposite impulse when confronted with a threatening impulse |
| Projection | attributing to others one’s own unacceptable desires and impulses |
| Displacement | directing energy toward another object/person when the original o/p is inaccessible |
| Rationalization | manufacturing good reasons to explain away a bruised ego |
| Sublimation | diverting sexual or aggressive energy into other channels |
| Regression | going back to an earlier phase of development when there were fewer demands |
| Introjection | taking in and “swallowing” the values and standards of others |
| Identification | identifying with successful causes, organizations, or people in the hope that you will be perceived as worthwhile |
| Compensation | masking perceived weaknesses or developing certain positive traits to make up for limitations |
| oral stage | First Psychosexual Stage |
| oral stage | Psychosexual Stage with inability to trust oneself or others |
| oral stage | Psychosexual Stage results in low self-esteem and fear of loving and forming close relationships |
| anal stage | Second Psychosexual Stage |
| anal stage | Psychosexual Stage with inability to recognize and express anger |
| anal stage | Psychosexual Stage leads to denial of one’s own power as a person and the lack of a sense of autonomy |
| phallic stage | Third Psychosexual Stage |
| phallic stage | Psychosexual Stage with inability to fully accept one’s sexuality and sexual feelings |
| phallic stage | Psychosexual Stage leads to difficulty in accepting oneself as man or woman |
| latency stage | Fourth Psychosexual Stage |
| latency stage | Psychosexual Stage time of socialization as child turns outwards and forms relationships with others |
| genital stage | Fifth Psychosexual Stage |
| genital stage | Psychosexual Stage begins with puberty and lasts until senility sets in |
| oral stage | Psychosexual Stage first year |
| anal stage | Psychosexual Stage 1-3 years |
| phallic stage | Psychosexual Stage 3-6 years |
| latency stage | Psychosexual Stage 6-12 years |
| genital stage | Psychosexual Stage 12+ |
| Working through process | consists of an exploration of unconscious material and defenses, most of which originate from childhood; results in a resolution of old patterns and new choices |
| Maintaining the analytic framework | Range of procedural and stylistic factors such as regular/consistent meetings, starting/ending on time |
| Maintaining the analytic framework | Providing a consistent framework |
| Maintaining the analytic framework | Minimize departures or changes in consistent pattern |
| Free association | Opens doors to unconscious wishes, fantasies, conflicts, motivations |
| Interpretation | Pointing out, explaining, or teaching client the meanings of behaviors |
| Interpretation | Functions to enable the ego to assimilate new material |
| Dream analysis latent content | hidden, symbolic, unconscious motives, wishes and fears |
| Dream analysis manifest content | the dream as it appears to the dreamer |
| Analysis of resistance | Devices that defend against anxiety but that interfere with the ability to accept change |
| Analysis of transference | Helps clients work through old conflicts |
| Libido | pleasure principle |
| Death instinct | we all like to kill things |