Freud Psychoynamic theory

Question 1

What is the conscious mind?

Answer 1

• The conscious mind is that part of the mind we are aware of.

Question 2

What is the pre-conscious mind?

Answer 2

• The pre-conscious mind is the part of the mind we are occasionally aware of.

Question 3

What is the unconscious mind?

Answer 3

The unconscious mind is the rest of the psyche that we are totally unaware of

Question 4

What technique did Freud create?

Answer 4

Freud created a technique called psychoanalysis

Question 5

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 5

• psychoanalysis - to help his patients understand their unconscious minds with the help of a trained psychoanalyst.

Question 6

What did Freud believe about psychoanalysis?

Answer 6

He believed that psychoanalysis could enable people to overcome problems rooted in the unconscious.

Question 7

What are the three parts of pscyhe?

Answer 7

• The id
• The ego
• The supergo

Question 8

What is the id?

Answer 8

• Most basic part
• Developed first in babies
• It consists of urges and desires.
• The id isn’t rational or reflective
• It is made up entirely of feelings.
• The id exists entirely in the unconscious mind.

Question 9

What is the ego?

Answer 9

• second part of the psyche
• develops in toddlers
• thinking, decision-making part of the mind
• exists within the conscious mind
• based on “the reality principle” because it understands the outside world, the consequences of actions and the passage of time.

Question 10

What is deferred gratification?

Answer 10

• The ego has a powerful bargaining chip for dealing with the id.
• Deferred gratification involves putting off pleasure until later, or enjoying a smaller pleasure in the short term for the sake of a larger pleasure later on.

Question 11

What is the supergo?

Answer 11

• final part of the psyche to develop is the super-ego
• forms between the ages of 4 and 6
• super-ego straddles the conscious and the unconscious mind
• we’re partly aware of it, partly not
• based on “the morality principle” and acts as “the voice of conscience”.
• It tells the ego whether its thoughts are morally acceptable or not.

Question 12

What is Repression?

Answer 12

• aggressive urges that are repressed drain the libido.
• Eventually, there is not enough energy to keep the aggression repressed and it explodes out

Question 13

What is Denial?

Answer 13

• the conscious mind refuses to admit what it is doing

Question 14

What is Projection?

Answer 14

• the super-ego’s hostility is directed towards other people who seem to be acting on those same feelings; this often involves “blaming the victim” for provoking the aggression

Question 15

What is Displacement?

Answer 15

the id’s urges are acted upon, but they are directed at a different target
- often happens with aggression, which can be targeted at someone or something else

Question 16

What is Sublimation?

Answer 16

• the id’s urges are acted upon, but are transformed into something socially acceptable

Question 17

What is avatistic behaviour?

Answer 17

• the behaviour of our ancestors.
• In other words, it’s an animal-type behaviour we no longer need but we’re stuck with.

Question 18

What is cathartic behaviour?

Answer 18

• Releasing strong emotion in a healthy way

Question 19

What is oedpius complex?

Answer 19

• A boy around age five begins to develop an intense sexual desire for his opposite sex parent- his mother.
• A boy around age five begins to develop an intense sexual desire for his opposite sex parent- his mother.
• assuming that by pursuing his mother’s affection his father will want to hurt him and castrate him
• To resolve this the boy internalises his father after realising his feelings are essentially inappropriate. In doing so, he takes on his father’s superego and as such, his moral values.

Question 20

How would the supergo be weak if the oedipus complex is unresolved?

Answer 20

• If the father is over strict then the superego may be so strong that the urges of the id are tightly controlled and thwarted in which case serious problems can arise

Question 21

What is the electra complex?

Answer 21

• The problems girls experience are mirrored to an extent, but since girls do not have a penis they are unable to develop a conscience through fear of castration in the same way boys do.
• The superegos of females are, therefore, weaker than those of males and they are morally inferior.

Question 22

How does eros and Thantos explain aggression?

Answer 22

• Aggression can be considered a drive and it links to the death instinct.
• The energy of thanatos will often be redirected away from the person and towards others, resulting in aggression.

Question 23

How can catharsis been seen as?

Answer 23

• catharsis is an emotional release of unconscious conflicts
• Catharsis can be seen as a way of venting aggression