Week 4 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What are “defense mechanisms”?
Mental strategies, rooted in the ego, that we use to manage anxiety when we feel threatened.
What are the 15 common defense mechanisms?
Denial, Regression, Acting Out, Dissociation, Compartmentalization, Projection, Reaction Formation, Repression, Displacement, Intellectualization, Rationalization, Undoing, Sublimation, Compensation and Assertiveness
Id
The seat of drives and instincts
Ego
Represents the logical, reality-oriented part of the mind that helps the ID and superego get along
Superego
Your conscience - the moral guidelines, rules, and prohibitions that guide your behavior.
What is the “object relations theory”?
The object relations theory contends that personality can be understood as reflecting mental images of significant figures that we form early in life in response to interactions taking place within the family. These mental images serve as a template for later interpersonal relationships.
Family in the Head
The family in the head is that we have internalized representations of important people in our lives, and these internalized figures talk to us and influence our behavior.
AKA “internalizations” or “internalized figures”
Define “overvaluation of love”
An idea by psychoanalyst Karen Horney that sexism and the demeaning of women’s value leads them to overvalue the experience of love and their connection to a male, usually through marriage
What is the “primacy of the unconscious”?
A hypothesis that the vast majority of a mental activity takes place outside conscious awareness.
Psychic Causality
The assumption that nothing in mental life happens by chance and there is no such thing as a “random” thought or feeling.
What is a “Freduian slip”?
Saying something unintended, making a verbal error, or saying something that betrays your unconscious mind.
Define “self-in-relation”
Feeling connected to others, being able to empathize, and being embedded in or dependent on relationships.
Define “self-analysis”
An idea that people can study themselves and don’t always have to use professionals, such as studying their own internalized figures and how these figures influence our behavior.
What is “womb envy”?
An idea that men envy women’s ability to create life.
True or False:
Freud believed humans need to identify with a same-sex parent in order to become fully mature. Thus Freud does not agree with same-sex parents.
True
Oedipal Complex
The desire for one parent and jealousy for the other.
Repression
The act of pushing threatening impulses, thoughts, and ideas into the unconscious to be dealt with later, or never.
Reaction Formation
Hiding threatening impulses by over-emphasizing their opposite.
Denial
Refusal to acknowledge anxiety-provoking stimuli.
Projection
Attributing anxiety-provoking impulse or thoughts to others, rather than to yourself.
Displacement
The transfer of negative emotion from one person or thing, to an unrelated person or thing.
Sublimation
Dangerous urges are transformed into positive, socially meaningful motivations.
Regression
Protecting the individual by returning to an earlier, “safer” time of life, rather than managing difficult impulses in a more mature way.
Splitting
The belief that a person is all good, or all bad.
Splitting in general is a failure to see shades of get, or more subtle and complex aspect of life.
