The Freudian Revolution Flashcards
(42 cards)
Freud is the founder of what technique?
Psychoanalysis
Describe Psychoanalysis
repressed desires are brought to consciousness to reveal emotional disturbance, and used dream analysis and free association to do this.
What did Freud believe dicated human behavior?
The unconscious; instinctual drives & sexual urges
Where did Freud believe illness came from?
Feelings of guilt from repressing instinctual urges
Why was Freud controversial and exciting?
Because of his attention on sex and erotic behavior (like homosexuality, fetishism, and voyeurism)
Describe Freud’s two types of infant sexuality
Oedipus Complex & Electra Complex
List the 3 parts of Freud’s Tripartite Psyche
Id, Ego & Superego
Explain what the Id does
the seat of human instincts and the source of all physical desires, including nourishment and sexual satisfaction. It seeks fulfillment and is the force of the unconscious
Explain what the Ego does
is the administrator of the id, it is the manager that attempts to adapt the needs of the id to the real world. It mediates between possibly destructive desires and social necessity. We get civilization because of the ego.
Explain what the Superego does
- is the moral monitor commonly called “the conscience.” It monitors human behavior according to values and principles from parents, teachers and other authority figures.
According to Freud, what are our two reasons for living?
1) Aims for absence of pain/unpleasure
2) But to experience a strong sense of pleasure of happiness
Explain Freud’s term “mild contentment”
prolonged happiness
_____ happiness doesn’t come from a _____ situation but episodes that ______ from the everyday state of things.
Intense; static; contrast
List Freud’s three areas of unhappiness
1) Our own physical body which will die and can be weakened by illness
2) The external world which hits us with forces of destruction
3) Our human relationships with each other (which can be the most painful)
Explain Freud’s term “organic”
Natural or a part of us
How does the term “organic” apply to Freud’s ideas on unhappiness?
Freud says to keep in mind that suffering is an organic sensation so in some ways he’s saying we control it.
What are Freud’s three ways to cope with suffering?
1) Intoxication
2) Physical and Intellectual Hard Work
3) Create our own delusion
Explain “Intoxication” as a coping mechanism.
Easy and effective is intoxication by drugs, the media, etc. to withdraw from reality but this is flawed and wasteful though open to all of us
Explain “Physical and Intellectual Hard Work” as a coping mechanism.
Physical and intellectual work for example an artist’s joy in creation is another way which is socially acceptable but limited to only those with great ability
Explain “Create our own delusion” as a coping mechanism.
To turn away from the world and create your own world. You create a delusional world to your liking either individually (as a hermit or ascetic) or communally (in a group). A group delusion is religion since one path or belief is imposed on everyone says Freud
How are technological innovations, a coping mechanism?
Allow us to control or overpower nature and seem and so seem to produce happiness but the happiness is cheap and fleeting and doesn’t solve the real problem says Freud.
What do critics say about Freud?
his methods are untestable, sexist, patriarchal and that his methods flat don’t work. He was a visionary but disputed.
Who was Carl Gustave Jung?
Another psychologist who thought Freud was too narrow so he expanded and redeveloped Freud’s views.
What was Jung’s basic ideology?
Jung believed that an individual’s personal unconscious urges (or life) rested on a deeper more universal human basis. In other words we all share the same foundational drives or psyche.
