Psychoanalytic Perspective (Sexual Tensions Shape Us - Module 55)

Question 1

Psychoanalysis

Answer 1

Freud’s theory attributes our thoughts and action to unconscious motives and conflicts

Question 2

Unconscious Mind

Answer 2

Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories (repression)

Question 3

Free Association

Answer 3

Asks patients to say whatever comes to their minds.

Question 4

Dream Analysis

Answer 4

Interpretation of manifest and latent content of dreams.

Question 5

ID-Pleasure Principle

Answer 5

(unconscious) strives to satisfy sexual and aggressive drives

operates on the pleasure principle

demanding immediate gratification

Question 6

Ego-Reality Principle

Answer 6

(executive) mediates among the demands of the id and superego, operates on the reality principle

satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will bring pleasure rather than pain

Question 7

Superego-Conscience

Answer 7

(unconscious) standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations

Morality Principle too strong = feels guilty

Question 8

Psychosexual Stages

Answer 8

Personality formed during the first few years of life divided into psychosexual stages

Question 9

Oedipus Complex

Answer 9

Boy’s unconscious sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

Results in feeling guilt and fear of punishment

Question 10

Identification

Answer 10

Superego gains strength that incorporates their parents’ values

Question 11

Fixation

Answer 11

Unresolved conflicts cause the person to be locked into certain behaviors

Oral fixation and anal fixation

Question 12

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 12

Methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality