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Freud - psychoanalysis Flashcards

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Libidinal organization is stages of our development characterized by patterns of sexual (and sensual) instinct centred on specific _______________

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Erotogenic zones

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What is the difference between erotogenic zone and erogenous zone

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Erotogenic = originating in sensual and sexual development 
Erogenous = giving rise to arousal and pleasure in a sexually mature individual
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Fixation occurs why?

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Because the needs corresponding to a stage are consistently frustrated (under gratified) or are satisfied too easily or too often (overgratied)

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The oral stage (birth-18mo) focus on gratification from

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Mouth and lips

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The early oral stage is called

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Incorporative

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The later oral stage is called _____ for it’s concerned with _____

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Sadistic

Bitting

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Over/under satisfaction in the oral stage will create what two characters

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Oral incorporative character

Oral sadistic character

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What is the oral incorporative character

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Engages in an abundance of oral activities (smoking, eating) and symbolically equivalent activities (collecting things or information)

Person who “swallow” anything he/she is told - gullible

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What is the oral sadistic character?

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Person who is verbally abusive and uses biting sarcasm

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The big event during the anal stage (18 mo - 3/4 yrs) is toilet training which is the first time that….

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Many kids’ external constrains are systematically imposed on satisfaction of internal urges

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Parents who emphasize punishment, ridicule and shame for failure during the anal stage will create two types of characters

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Anal expulsive: messy, cruel, destructive but also generous and creative

Anal-retentive character: a stingy perfectionist who may experience problems with constipation & orbstinte, neat and orderly

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In the Phallic stage (3/4 - 6/7 yrs) the awakening sexual desires are initially _______ and then libido shifts towards ________

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Autoerotic

Opposite-sex parent where child can become hostile towards

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During which stage is the sexual impulse suppressed ?

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Latent stage (6/7 yrs until puberty)

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When does the resurgence of the sex drive happen and focus on pleasure in sexual inter course ?

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Genital stage (begin at puberty)

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What are the 3 aspects of the dynamic mind ?

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Conscious mind, preconscious, unconscious

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What is the conscious mind

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All mental elements in awareness at any time

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What is the preconscious mind

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Elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty

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What is the unconscious mind

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State in which ideas are formed before being made conscious

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Where are most of our behaviours formed?

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The unconscious

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What are the 3 psychic forces of the mind

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Id/It, Ego, Superego

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What psychic force of the mind translates the organisms need into motivational forces or wishes

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Id

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What is the definition of Id

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A psychic representative of biology

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The ego relates the _____ to ____ by means of its consciousness/awareness

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organism to reality

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Around 1 year old, some of the Id becomes the ____

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“Ego” (one’s awareness or consciousness)

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As the Ego tries to keep the Id happy it meets with obstacles in the world. This record of things to avoid and strategies to cope becomes the ____

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Superego

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The superego communicates its requirements to the ____ with feelings like _______

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Ego

Shame, pride, guilt

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A healthy person is dominated by the ____

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Ego ( a strong awareness)

28
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A pleasure-seeking person is dominated by the ___

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Id

29
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A guilt-ridden or inferior-feeling person is dominated by the ____

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Super-ego (dominated by views of society/authority)

30
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What is dream work

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mental processes that convert unconscious (latent) wishes and needs into disguised images of the manifest dream

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What is manifest content in dream work

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What the dream appears to be about to the dreamer (characters of the play)

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What is latent content in dream work

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Dream’s true meaning that is disguised or distorted by dream work (the true meaning of the conflict between the characters)

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what are 3 components of the dream work that are always inter related?

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condensation (static), visual representation (dynamic), displacement (interactive)

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WHat is the manifest content of a dream that is a compressed version of many related and intertwined elements?

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Condensation (static)

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What is visual representation

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the dreamer creates concrete pictures to represent abstract thoughts

36
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What is displacement

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Replacing a latent element by shifting emphasis to a remote and unimportant idea in a manifest element

37
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According to Freud, what is the basis of all subsequent feelings of anxiety?

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the feeling of helplessness following birth

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What is realistic anxiety?

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Basic fear from the physical world

39
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What is moral anxiety?

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Fear of punishment from the internalized social world of the Superego

40
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What is neurotic anxiety

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fear that one will be punished externally for impulsive actions

41
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What is the easiest form of anxiety to reduce? (healthiest anxiety)

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Realistic anxiety

42
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Individuals usually feel overwhelmed and with no control, with which type of anxiety?

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Neurotic anxiety

43
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What are the 9 ego defense mechanisms?

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Denial, repression, displacement, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, reaction formation, sublimation, regression

44
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Refusing to recognize objective events in conscious awareness is what defense mechanism

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denial

45
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Being unable to remember or reflect on past events or impulses = what defense mechanism

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repression

46
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Redirecting distress from original target to someone/something else that is safe = what defense mechanism

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displacement

47
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Choosing to see one’s own faults in the other = what defense mechanism?

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projection

48
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what is rationalization

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making excuses by distorting the threatening facts

49
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What is intellectualization

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Detaching emotion from a taxing experience by analyzing it

50
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What is reaction formation

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Believing the opposite - transforming unacceptable thoughts or urges into their exact opposite

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What is sublimation

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Channeling unnaceptable impulses into positive behaviour or artistic forms of expression

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What is regression

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During a time of stress, reverting back to an earlier stage of development when life was simpler

53
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To treat neurosis, Freud moves from hypnosis to dream analysis and eventually to ____

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Free association

54
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The aim of therapy is to achieve ________

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insight and/or catharsis

55
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What is catharsis

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Emotional relief that comes about when a person is able to ponder pathogenic ideas consciously

56
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What 5 factors influence the therapeutic process

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Resistance and working through, transference, counter-transference, transference relationship, parapraxes

57
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What are some examples of parapraxes (clues of the unconscious/repressed conflicts)

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Slip of the tongue, obvious mistakes, forgetfulness, erros in writing and speaking

58
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Through the recreation of the child-parent dynamics with the analyst, an opportunity for ____ becomes possible

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Re-parenting

59
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Freud saw _____ as the main vehicle for healing

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Transference neurosis

60
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What is the phenomenon that can occur during therapy where the therapist becomes emotionally involved with patient

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COunter transference

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What is transference

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phenomenon where patient responds to therapist as if he/she was important person in patients life

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What is resistance?

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Patient’s unwillingness to ponder and report anxiety producing thoughts duing the therapeutic process

63
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The analysis counteracts the resistance by

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working through it: talking, examining, re-examining ways in which the patient resists treatment by unconsciously trying to obstruct or divert the analysis

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What is eros?

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llife insticts that contain libidinal psychic energy

65
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what is thanatos

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the “death instinct” or rather a desire to return to a state of non-struggle

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