WEEK 7: Psychoanalysis Flashcards
What does psychoanalysis place a focus on?
Psychoanalysis places focus on unconscious motivations
Considering Freud’s work, what would he think about Enlightenment?
What does enlightened humanism do?
Narrow and restrictive
Underlying motivations are repressed by enlightened humanism
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The ego
What part of the personality does the ego refer to?
Certainty about sense of self?
What can a properly developed ego do? (balance)
The ego refers to the rational, conscious part of the personality
Definite sense of self
A properly developed ego maintains balance between underlying wishes and the superego
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The superego
Which part of the personality is the superego associated with?
Type of conscience? (motivations are felt as? rather than?)
Sense of?
The superego is the part of the personality which is associated with morality, conscience and convention
Type of consciousness = preconscious: its motivations are felt as compulsions rather than conscious choices
Sense of right and wrong
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The Id
Refers to what kind of drives?
repressed by? Why?
When can it resurface?
Example of where it can resurface?
The Id refers to the drives which are socially unacceptable
It is normally repressed by a properly developed ego (provides a secure sense of self)
However it can resurface at traumatic times, threatening psychological breakdown
For example it can resurface through dreams
Repression
What kind of mechanism?
What does it prevent?
What is repression never complete? What kind of content (2)
Examples?
Psychic mechanism
Prevents traumatic memories and wishes from entering the consciousness
Repression is never complete, clues to the unconscious latent content (hidden) can be found in conscious manifest content.
Example: Freudian slips, myths, art, dreams
Dreamwork
Function?
Mechanism which smuggles the conscious content into the semi-conscious mind in a sorted form - wishes, desires, traumas
Prevents traumas from disturbing sleep
