3 - Psychoanalysis 2 Flashcards
Neo-Freudian, youngest daughter of Freud
Anna Freud
Became the primary American form of psychoanalysis from the 1940s to the 1970s
Ego psychology
Refers to any person, object, or activity that can satisfy an instinct
Object
Focus on the interpersonal relationships with objects
Emphasize the social and environmental influences on personality
Object relations theories
Object relations theorist
Melanie Klein
Analytical Psychology
Carl Jung
The inherited experiences of the human species and their animal ancestors
Level below the personal unconscious; deepest level of the psyche
Universal evolutionary experiences
Collective unconscious
Beneath our conscious awareness, contains our memories, impulses, wishes, faint perceptions, and other experiences in a person’s life that have been suppressed or forgotten
Can easily be recalled to conscious awareness
Reservoir of material that once was conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed
Personal unconscious
Inherited tendencies within the collective unconscious that dispose a person to behave similarly to ancestors who confronted similar situations
Archetypes
The mask each of us wears when we come in contact with other people; mask that represents us as we want to appear to society
Persona
Reflect the idea that each person exhibits some of the characteristics of the other sex
anima - feminine characteristics in man
animus- masculine characteristics in woman
Anima / Animus
The animalistic part of personality
Inherited from lower forms of life
Immoral, passionate, and unacceptable desires and activities
Positive side - creativity, spontaneity, creativity, insight, deep emotion
Shadow
The most important archetype
Integrates and balances all aspects of the unconscious; procides the personality with unity and stability
Drive toward self-actualization - harmony, completeness, full development of our abilities
Self
Libido is directed outsid the self to external events and people
Strongly influenced by forces in the environment and is sociable and self-confident in a variety of situations
Extrovert
Libido is directed inwards, contemplative, introspective, resistant to external influences
Likely less confident than the extravert in dealing with other people and situations
Introvert