Chapter 9 - Person psychology: psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives Flashcards
Oedipal Conflict
Book 1 Part 4
Page 183
Oepidal conflict arises during the phallic stage when a boy comes unconsciously to regard his father as rival for his mother’s affection.
Note: Part of Freud’s theory on childhood: oral, anal, phallic
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Psychodynamics
Book 1 Part 4
Page 187
Internal conflict between different forces or aspects of the self/ psyche (the id, ego and superego) and the defences and distortions this may involve.
Note: These aspects may conflict: sexual desire (the pleasure drive of the id), fear of punishment (the concern of the ego for the consequences of reality) or by guilt that is wrong (the introjected inhibitions of the superego). Psychodynamics refers to the conflict between these aspects and the different ways in which this may be played out.
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Defence Mechanism(s)
Book 1 Part 4
Page 188
In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, defence mechanisms are psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses to maintain one’s self schema
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Personal Constructs
Book 1 Part 4
Page 199
Term used by George Kelly to refer to the bipolar (with two poles or ends for example, friendly-cold etc.) discriminations underlying the ways in which a person makes sense of his/her world.
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Self Actualisation
Book 1 Part 4
Page 203
The human desire for self-fulfilment and developing one’s potential ‘to become everything that one is capable of becoming’.
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