Psychoanalysis Flashcards
___ (Sigmund) Freud was born either on ___ or ___, ___, in ___, ___, which is now part of the Czech Republic
Sigismund;
March 6 or May 6, 1856;
Freiberg, Moravia
Sigmund was the ___ (order) of ___ (number of children) children of ___ and ___ Freud.
first;
seven;
Amalia;
Jacob
Sigmund was well versed in languages, learning not only the classical languages—___, ___ and ___—but also ___, ____, ____, and ___, and he read ___ at the age of ___.
Greek, Latin and Hebrew;
English, French, Italian and Spanish;
Shakespeare;
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Sigmund attended the ___ (a secondary school) from 1866 to 1873, graduating summa cum laude.
Sperlgymnasium
In the winter of ___, Freud began his medical studies at the ___ and finished his degree 8 years later.
1873;
University of Vienna
Freud married ___ in 1886. During their 53 years of marriage, they had ___ children, the youngest of whom, ___, was to become a well-known child analyst, making significant contributions to the development of psychoanalysis.
Martha Berneys;
six;
Anna
Even when he was a ___ (Sigmund’s job by title), Sigmund never intended to practice general medicine. He was rather intensely curious about human nature.
Physician
Reminder:
The concepts of Freudian psychoanalytical theory provide a basic frame of reference for understanding not only his work but also that of other psychoanalytic theorists.
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Drives and Instincts:
___ includes breathing, eating, drinking, and excreting.
Self-preservative Drives
Drives and Instincts:
___ are inclined to sexuality.
Species-preservative Drives
Drive and Instincts:
___/___/___ are associate with all life instincts and included the general goal of seeking to gain pleasure and avoid pain.
Sex;
Libido;
Eros
Drives and Instincts:
___/___ or ___ are accounted for aggressive drives. These include ___ desires to hurt others or oneself.
Aggression;
Death instinct;
Thanatos
Drives and Instincts:
___ provide a more acceptable outlet for physical aggressive expression.
Sports
There are ___ levels of consciousness, namely: ___, ___, and ___.
Three;
Conscious;
Preconscious;
Unconscious
___ level of mental life are sensations and experiences that the person is aware of at any point in time.
Conscious
___ level of mental life plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory.
Conscious
___ level of mental life is the only level that is directly available to us.
Conscious
Ideas can reach consciousness from two different directions, namely: ___ and ___.
Perceptual Conscious System;
Preconscious and Unconscious
Levels of Consciousness
___ gives what we perceive through senses.
Perceptual Conscious System
Levels of Consciousness
___ are nonthreatening ideas only and well disguised images.
Preconscious and Unconscious
___ are memories of events and experiences that can easily be retrieved with litter effort.
Preconscious
The contents of preconscious come from two sources: ___ and ___.
Conscious Perception and Unconscious
Levels of Consciousness:
___ is defined as what a person perceives is conscious for only a transitory period. Example: Seeing people on a street
Conscious Perception
Levels of Consciousness: ___ is where ideas can slip past the vigilant censor and enter into the preconscious.
Unconscious
___ is the container for memories and emotions that are threatening to the conscious mind and must be pushed away.
Unconscious
The ___ contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions.
Unconscious
___ processes often enter into consciousness but only after being disguised or distorted enough to elude censorship.
Unconscious
Unconscious images first must be sufficiently disguised to slip past the ___ and a ___.
Primary Censor;
Final Censor
By the time these memories enter our conscious mind, we no longer recognize unconscious images as threatening or for what they are; instead, we see them as relatively ___, ___ experiences.
Pleasant;
Nonthreatening
Levels of Consciousness:
___ is a portion of our unconscious which originates from the experiences of our early ancestors.
Phylogenetic Endowment
Bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness is a major therapeutic task. This can be brought into awareness by: ___, ___, and ___.
Dream Interpretation;
Slips of the Tongue;
Forgetting
The three provinces of the mind are: ___, ___ and ___.
Id;
Ego;
Superego
___ represents unchecked biological forces.
Id
At birth, the infant is all ___.
Id
Id are inherited and physiological forces, such ___, ___, and ___ which drive the infant.
Hunger;
thirst;
elimination
___ is the pleasure principle which seeks to find pleasure and avoid pain.
Id
___ is the rational being that mediates between the two and deals with reality.
Ego
The __ must mediate between the world around the infant and the instincts or drives within the infant.
Ego
By waiting or suspending the pleasure principle, the ___ follows the reality principle.
Ego
___ is the voice of social conscience.
Superego
