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Midterm - Freud
5010 Midterm Freud Concepts
Question | Answer |
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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 |