Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Sigismund (Sigmund) Freud was born either on ____, in ____ which is now part of the Czech Republic.
March 6 or May 6,
1856
Freiberg, Moravia,
Sigmund Freud was the first of seven children of
Amalia and Jacob Freud
He was well versed in languages,learning not only the classical
languages—___,____,___, —but also ___, ____, ___, _____
, and he read Shakespeare at the age of .
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew
English, French, Italian,and Spanish
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He attended the ____ (a secondary school) from 1866 to 1873,
graduating summa cum laude.
Sperlgymnasium
In the winter of ___, Freud began his medical studies at the ___ and finished his degree ___ years later.
1873
University of
Vienna
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In ___, Freud had the opportunity to travel to Paris and spend 4 months with
, a famous French neurologist and hypnotist.
1885
Jean Charcot
Freud married ____ in 1886.
Martha Bernays
Drives and Instinct
Self preservative drives
Species-preservative drives
including breathing, eating, drinking, and excreting.
Self preservative drives -
– sexuality
Species-preservative drives
- associated with all life instincts and included the
general goal of seeking to gain pleasure and avoid pain.
Sex/Libido/Eros
- accounted for aggressive
drives. These include unconscious desires to hurt others or oneself.
Aggression/Death instinct or Thanatos
Three levels of consciousness
- Conscious
- Unconscious
- Preconscious
- sensations and experiences that the person is aware of at
any point in time.
• Plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory.
• It is the only level of mental life directly available to us.
Conscious
Ideas can reach consciousness from two different directions.
- Perceptual Conscious System
- Preconscious and Unconscious
what we perceive through senses
Perceptual Conscious System –
nonthreatening ideas only and well
disguised images
Preconscious and Unconscious –
- memories of events and experiences that can easily be retrieved with little effort.
Preconscious
The contents of the preconscious come from two sources:
- Conscious perception
- Unconscious
what a person perceives is conscious for only a transitory period. Ex. Seeing people on a street
Conscious Perception -
- ideas can slip past the vigilant censor and enter into the preconscious.
Unconscious
– the container for memories and emotions that are threatening to the conscious mind and must be pushed away.
Unconscious
contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are
beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words,
feelings, and actions.
The unconscious
processes often enter into consciousness but only after being disguised or distorted enough to elude censorship.
Unconscious
unconscious images first must be sufficiently disguised to slip past the
____ &_____
primary censor and a final censor
- a portion of our unconscious originates from
the experiences of our early ancestors.
Phylogenetic endowment
Bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness is a major therapeutic task. This
can be brought into awareness by:
- Dream interpretation
- Slips of a tongue
- Forgetting
-images within the dream may represent various unconscious
needs, wishes, or conflicts
Dream interpretation
– apparently reveal private thoughts and feelings that individuals
hold
Slips of the tongue
– repression
Forgetting