Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory Flashcards
(26 cards)
2 levels of mental life
Conscious and Unconscious
Inherited experiences that lie beyond an individual’s personal experience.
Phylogenetic Endowment
Not conscious but can become conscious
Preconscious
Mental elements in awareness at any given point
Conscious
3 Provinces of Mind
Id, Ego, Superego
Second manifestation of eros.
Love
People express the opposite of their true feeling
Reaction Formation
Felt affective, unpleasant state accompanies by physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger
Anxiety
3 anxiety
Neurotic Anxiety, Moral Anxiety, Realistic Anxiety
When the ego is threatened by undesirable impulses, it protects itself by repressing impulses, FORCING THESE IMPULSES IN THE UNCONSCIOUS.
Repression
Adopting a disguise that is directly opposite of its original.
Reaction Formation
Redirect their unacceptable urges onto a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised
Displacement
Ego resorts to REMAIN IM THE PRESENT
Fixation
Attributing unwanted impulses to an external object
Projection
Incorporating positive qualities that other people have into their own ego
Introjection
Combine with direct expression and result in a kind of balance between social accomplishments and personal pleasure
Sublimation
3 Stages of Development
Oral phase, Anal phase, Phallic phase
Develops a SEXUAL desire for the mother
Male oedipus complex
Discover that boys are born with penis. Penis envy.
Female oedipus comple
Brought about by parents discouragement of sexual identity among children
Latency period
Puberty signal awakening of the sexual aim
Genital period
Freud’s early therapeutic technique
Free Association
Patients are required to verbalize every thought that comes to mind
Free Association
Strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop to their analyst
Transference
