Freud - Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud: Cornerstones of Psychoanalysis Theory

Answer 1

Sex and aggression

Question 2

Freud: Levels of mental life

Answer 2

Unconscious (unconscious proper & preconscious) and conscious.

Question 3

Freud: What is phylogenetic endowment?

Answer 3

Portion of unconscious from experiences of early ancestors

Question 4

Freud: How do unconscious thoughts get into consciousness?

Answer 4

Disguised or distorted to elude primary and final censors.

Question 5

Freud: Sources of preconscious

Answer 5

Conscious perception (for a moment) and unconscious.

Question 6

Freud: Provinces of the mind

Answer 6

Id, Ego, Superego

Question 7

Freud: What are the three principles for Id, Ego, Superego?

Answer 7

Id: Pleasure
Ego: Reality
Superego: moralistic and idealistic

Question 8

Freud: What are the three drives described to Freud?

Answer 8

Sex – narcissism, love, sadism/masochism
Aggression – destructive drive to return to inorganic state
Anxiety – unpleasant state with sensation warning of danger.

Question 9

Freud: What are the types of anxiety according to Freud?

Answer 9

Neurotic anxiety – about unknown danger
Moral anxiety – from conflict between ego and superego
Realistic anxiety – related to fear. Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling of danger.

Question 10

Freud: ____ is defensively pushing an impulse to the unconscious.

Answer 10

Repression

Question 11

Freud: ___ is a repressed impulse becoming conscious in a form opposite to the original.

Answer 11

Reaction formation

Question 12

Freud: _____ is the substitution of a cultural aim in place of another impulse.

Answer 12

Sublimation

Question 13

Freud: List the major stages of development

Answer 13

1. Infancy
2. Latency
3. Genital period
4. Maturity

Question 14

Freud: List the infantile sub-stages of development

Answer 14

1. Oral – oral-receptive, oral-sadistic phase
2. Anal (early, late)
3. Phallic phase (incl. castration anxiety, penis envy)

Question 15

Freud: Events that are not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are contents of the _____.

Answer 15

Preconscious

Question 16

Freud: When does the superego begin to form?

Answer 16

After the Oedipus Complex is resolved.

Question 17

Freud: What terms describe the surface meaning and the unconscious material in dreams?

Answer 17

Manifest content (surface)
Latent content (unconscious)

Question 18

Freud: What’s another name for a Freudian slip?

Answer 18

Parapraxes

Question 19

Freud: What do parapraxes reveal?

Answer 19

Unconscious impulses

Question 20

Freud: Childhood behaviors related to sex and aggression, when punished, lead to ___ or ____.

Answer 20

Repression or anxiety

Question 21

Freud: Childhood experiences not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are make up the contents of the _____.

Answer 21

Preconscious

Question 22

Freud: The most basic defense mechanism against anxiety is ____.

Answer 22

Repression

Question 23

Freud: What are the three substages of the infantile stage?

Answer 23

Oral, anal, phallic

Question 24

Freud: The Oedipus complex occurs in which infantile stage?

Answer 24

Phallic

Question 25

Freud: During the simple Oedipal stage, what does the child desire?

Answer 25

Sexual union with one parent while feeling hostility for the other.

Question 26

Freud: Define repression, as Freud used the term.

Answer 26

The forcing of unwanted, anxiety-laden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against pain.

Question 27

Freud: Describe the defense of displacement.

Answer 27

Redirecting unacceptable behavior from one person to another. E.g. blame a pet instead of spouse.

Question 28

Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development.

Answer 28

Fixation

Question 29

Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which the ego attributes one's own unwanted impulse to another person.

Answer 29

Projection

Question 30

Freud: Describe introjection.

Answer 30

A defense mechanism in which people incorporate positive qualities of another person in their ego.

Question 31

Freud: What is sublimation?

Answer 31

The repression of a genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim.

Question 32

Freud: What are the phases of the oral stage?

Answer 32

Early oral – receiving the nipple. Oral-receptive – needs are satisfied with minimum frustration or anxiety until scheduled feedings and weaning. Oral-sadistic – emergence of teeth, leading to biting, cooing, etc.

Question 33

Freud: What are the phases of the anal stage?

Answer 33

Early anal period – satisfaction by destroying objects | Late anal period – takes a friendly interest in feces, may present to parent as a prize.

Question 34

Freud: Anal eroticism transforms into the ___ ___ of orderliness, stinginess, and obstinacy.

Answer 34

Anal triad

Question 35

Freud: Describe the latency stage

Answer 35

From year 4/5 to puberty, children often go through a period of dormant psychosexual development.

Question 36

Freud: What’s a common cause of the latency stage?

Answer 36

Parents’ attempts to punish or discourage sexual activity in their young children.

Question 37

Freud: Freud believed that __ and __ are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.

Answer 37

Dreams and Freudian slips

Question 38

Summarize Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

Answer 38

Freud relied mostly on deductive reasoning and identified: - Cornerstones of his psychoanalysis: sex and aggression - 3 levels of mental life: unconscious, pre-conscious, and conscious. - Three provinces of the mind: id (pleasure principle), ego (reality) and superego (moralistic). - Four stages of development: infantile (oral, anal, phallic), latency, genital, maturity. Dreams and Freudian slips reveal unconscious intentions, so Freud used dream analysis and free association to help strengthen the ego.

Question 39

Freud: What's the most basic defense mechanism?

Answer 39

Repression

Question 40

Freud: Describe the reaction formation defense mechanism.

Answer 40

An impulse adopting a disguise opposite from its original form.

Question 41

Freud: Describe the displacement defense mechanism.

Answer 41

Redirecting unacceptable urges onto other ppl or objects. e.g. taking anger out on your cat, not your boss.

Question 42

Freud: Describe the fixation defense mechanism.

Answer 42

Fixation: Remaining at a present, more comfortable psychological stage.

Question 43

Freud: Describe the regression defense mechanism

Answer 43

Reverting back to an earlier stage

Question 44

Freud: Describe the projection mechanism

Answer 44

Seeing in others unacceptable feelings that actually side in one's own unconscious.

Question 45

Freud: Describe the introjection mechanism

Answer 45

Incorporate positive qualities of another into one's own ego

Question 46

Freud: Describe the sublimation mechanism

Answer 46

Replacing a genital aim with a cultural or social one.