Psychodynamic Assumptions Flashcards
(19 cards)
what are the 3 psychodynamic assumptions?
- tripartite personality
- unconscious mind
- influences of childhood experiences
What are the three parts of your personality?
- Id
- ego
- superego
What is the Id?
An inate part of your personality which is selfish, impulsive and irrational, it is the pleasure principle and is part of your libido (needing instant pleasure) it is in your unconscious mind and when dominant you are aggressive and impulsive.
What is the ego?
Develops around 2 years old, rational, balanced reality principle, referees between the Id and superego.
What is the superego?
Develops because if the Oedipus and electra complex by learning from your same sex parent around age 4, guilty, moral morality principle, if dominant, gullible, guilty, moral.
What are the 5 psychosexual stages of development?
Oral, anal. Phallic, latency, genital.
What is the oral stage of development?
When the libido is in your mouth, from 0-1.5/2years, so sucking and biting behaviour is present, overindulgence or frustration can lead to fixations
What is oral over indulgence?
Too much, being allowed to suck and bite as much as you want for example on a dummy which can lead to happy gullible and needy characteristics
What is oral frustration?
Too little, not being able to suck and bite as much as needed for development, this can lead to someone who bites their nails, smokes, sarcastic, snidey, sinical.
What is the anal stage of development?
It happens around 2-3 years (potty training)
What does anally retentive mean?
When potty training was too strict so leads you to traits such as being overly tidy and could be the basis of OCD.
What happens when potty training is too lenient?
It can create unorganised reckless behaviour as there was no control or consequences when potty training.
What happens in the phallic stage for males?
At around age 4 boys begin to love their mum and see their dad as competition so they end up scared their dad will find out and end up with castration anxiety (which Freud said was worse than penis envy so boys have a more developed superego which is why there was a social structure) they then repress this as it is traumatic and transfer their love to their dad and develop their superego through watching his actions.
What happens in the phallic stage for females?
Around age 4, they start to notice social structure so they idolise dad and look down on their mum. They then realise they are like mum and get penis envy so they develop a hatred for their mum. This is then repressed as it was traumatic and the love is transferred to mum and they develop their superego by watching mums actions.
What is the latency stage?
When the libido is not active.
What is the genital stage?
When puberty happens going into adulthood when sexual relationships develop.
What is the unconscious mind?
Freud described it as an iceberg, conscious mind being only the tip of what we know and see about ourselves. Precinscoius is just below the surface and can potentially be reached. Unconscious holds memories feelings and thoughts that we are unaware of but still influence our behaviour
What are ego defence mechanisms?
They are to stop things in our unconscious mind from reaching our conscious mind.
What are the three ego defence mechanisms?
- respession, pushing it down so we forget
- displacement, taking feelings out on something else e.g. a substitute object
- projection, thoughts are changed e.g. I hate you –> you hate me
