Psychoanalysis Flashcards
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Seduction Theory
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early childhood sexual trauma are the cause of mental illness/psych symptoms in adulthood
memories are repressed fantasies of childhood masturbation
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neurosis
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nervous symptoms w/ no organic basis; manifestation of unconscious and unresolved psychosexual issues
3
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What are humans motivated by?
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instincts, also called drives
4
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Id
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innate psychic energy; unconscious; basic needs
5
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ego
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mediates the id and superego–how do we go about meeting our basic needs whilst not becoming animalistic (meeting our needs in socially acceptable ways)
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deterministic
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personalities formed early in life and are difficult to change
7
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psychic reality
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our understanding of the world
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