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Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality Flashcards

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intrapsychic domain

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  • deals with mental mechanisms (many of which operate outside conscious awareness)
  • both classic and modern takes of Freud’s psychoanalysis theory
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Sygmund Freud

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  • studied hypnosis with Jean-Martin Charcot
  • treated patients with “nervous-disorders” and developed theory of the unconscious
  • adult personality = result of how one coped ith sexual and aggressive urges
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fundamentals of psychoanalysis

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  • personality = complex interplay of conscious + unconscious motives, thoughts and feelings
  • B motivated by unconscious factors
    1. unconscious motives + conflicts
    2. parapraxis = Freudian slip
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fundamental assumptions

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  1. human mind is like hydraulic system
  2. personality change occurs with redirection of person’s psychic energy
  3. unconscious mind operated under its own power
  4. emphasis on interaction and conflict between the unconscious and conscious mind
  5. unconscious thoughts must be discovered in indrect ways
  6. developed large theoretical models to explain a wide range of clinical observations
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basic instincts - sex and aggression

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instincts
- strong innate forces that provide all the energy in the psychic system
- Freud’s original theory of instincts was influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution
initial formulation
- self- preservation instincts and sexual instincts = life instincts (libido)

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To which instinct did Freud add “Thanatos” to ?

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the death instinct

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theory of personality: conscious

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  • contains A, C and images about which one is presently aware
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theory of personality: preconscious

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  • contains info one is not presently thinking about, BUT can be easily retrieved - made conscious
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theory of personality: unconscious

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  • largest part of the human mind
  • hold thoughts, memories, that one is unaware of
  • includes unacceptable sexual and aggressive urges, thoughts and feelings
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theory of personality: motivated unconscious

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  • material can leak through into ABC
  • sometimes we don’t know why we do what we do
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dynamic unconscious

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id - instincts
ego - rational
superego - moral

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id

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  • most primitive part of the mind, source of all drives and urges
  • operates according to the pleasure principle (desire for immediate gratification)
  • functions according to primary process thinking
  • wish fulfillment
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wish fulfillment

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something unavailable = conjured up and the image of it is temporarily satisfying

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ego

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  • constrains id to reality
  • develops within first 2-3y of life
  • operates according to reality principle
  • operates according to secondary process thinking
  • executive of personality
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reality principle

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understands that urges of id are often in conflict with social and physical reality

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superego

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  • upholder of societal values and morals of society (or care-givers)
  • “conscience” or “ego ideal”
  • main tool in enforcing right vs wrong = emotion of guilt
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what is one similarity between the id and the superego?

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superego and id are not bound by reality

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anxiety

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  • state of tension which motivates individuals to do something
  • types
    1. reality
    2. neurotic
    3. moral
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reality anxiety

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conflict between EGO and EXTERNAL REALITY

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neurotic anxiety

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conflict between ID and EGO

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moral anxiety

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conflict between EGO and SUPEREGO

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defense mechanisms

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  • when the ego is not in control of anxiety through rational methods, resorts to unrealistic methods
  • 2 characteristics
    1. denying, falsifying and distorting reality
    2. operates unconsciously
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how the ego copes

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primitive
- denial, projection, regression
neurotic
- repression, displacement, reaction formation, rationalization (debated)
mature
- sublimination, humour, suppression, altruism

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repression

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  • keeping unconscious from consciousness by pushing it down
  • repressive coping
  • refer to slide 21
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repressive coping

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  • not allowing anxiety to become fully conscious
  • slow RT to disturbing sexual and aggressive phrases
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denial

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  • not acknowledging unconscious content
  • fundamental attribution error
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displacement

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  • moving a troubling impulse onto a different, less threatening object
  • anger = common example
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projection

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  • protecting ego by attributing your own undesirable characteristics to others
  • false consensus effect
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rationalization

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reinterpreting B through use of plausible but inaccurate excuses

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reaction formation

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  • disguising unconscious content by turning it onto its opposite
  • refer to graphs on slide 24
  • Toddlers & Tiaras
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sublimination

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  • channeling unconscious impulses into work
  • relatively healthy
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suppression

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  • will address it when I’m ready
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defense mechanisms: humour

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  • release tension between unconscious + conscious
    1. diffuse uncomfortable situation
    2. help people cope with - experiences
  • 4 styles:
    1. affiliative
    2. self-enhancing
    3. aggressive
    4. self- defeating
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evidence for defense mechanisms

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  • considerable evidence for reaction formation + denial
  • some evidence for projection
  • little evidence for displacement/sublimation
  • more likely to protect self esteem than defend against unconscious drives
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psychological stages

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  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. genital
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oral stage

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  • 0-1y
  • id driven
  • source of pleasure and tension reduction are on the mouth, lips and tongue
  • key conflict - weaning - withdrawing from the breasts or bottle
  • oral fixation
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anal stage

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  • 1-3y
  • libido = attached to anus
  • child obtains pleasure from expelling feces, then, during toilet training, from retaining feces
  • focus on potty training
  • many conflicts arise around child’s ability to achieve self-control, self-mastery, self-knowledge
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anal stage: oral fixation results in 1 of 2 patterns…

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  1. anal retentive
    - pleasure obtained from neatness and order
  2. anal expulsive
    - pleasure obtained from messiness and disorganization
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phallic stage

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  • 3-5y
  • libido = attached to gnitals
  • child discovers that they do or don’t have a penis
  • sexual desire directed toward the parent of opposite sex
  • produces oedipal and electra conflicts
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oedipal and electra conflicts

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  • unconscious wish to have oppposite sex parent all to self by eliminating the same sex parent
  • castration anxiety
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latency stage

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  • 6 to puberty
  • little psychological dev occurs
  • libido remains dormant until puberty
  • focus of child is on learning skills and abilities necessary to succeed as adult
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genital stage

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  • puberty through adult life
  • libido = focused on genitals, but not in manner of self manipulation associated with the phallic stage
  • not accompanied by specific conflict
  • people reach this stage only if conflicts = resolved at previous stages
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making the unconscious conscious

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GOAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
1. identify unconscious thoughts and feelings
2. once aware of this material, enable person to deal with it realistically and maturely
techniques
1. free association
2. dream analysis
3. projective techniques

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free association

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resistance
- blockage or refusal to disclose painful memories during free association
analysis of repression
- barring unacceptable ideas, memories or desires from conscious awareness
- leaving them to operate in the unconscious mind

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dream analysis

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manifest content
- literal meaning
latent content
- underlying meaning
wish fulfillment
- symbolic expression of a wish

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dreaming and personality

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  • high in neuroticism = more nightmares
  • low in neuroticism and high in openness = more dreams about flying
  • high in openness = more strange and different people and more likely to remember dreams
  • high agreeableness = more poeple in dreams
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projection

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  • project their own personalities into what they report seeing
  • hostile and aggressive person might see teeth, claws and blood
  • oral fixated might see food or people eating
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importance of psychoanalysis

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  1. continuing influence on
    - modern psychotherapy
    - research topics, including the unconscious and defense mechanisms
    - popular Western culture
  2. laid foundation for topics and questions that psychologists are still interested in today
  3. BUT many criticisms
    - Freud’s theory = primarily of historical value and does not directly inform much current personality research

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