35. Personalities -- Psycholanalytic Flashcards
dude in the late 19th to early 20th C
Sigmund Freud
believed a massive set of 1. ________ issues determined our 2. _________ and 3. _________
- unconscious
- personalities
- behaviors
the 1. ________ is full of 2. __________ passions, memories, and thoughts we 3. _____
- unconscious
- unacceptable
- repress
forcibly block from our conscious mind
repress
- ________ feelings could 2. _______ themselves secretly or 3. ________ in 4. ________ forms
- troublesome
- manifest
- unknowingly
- disguised
how troublesome feelings can manifest themselves (4)
- work we choose (football player)
- beliefs (death)
- habits (smokers)
- symptoms (blindness due to trauma)
freud believed 1. _______ motives 2. ______ b/w our primitive 3. _____, 4. ______, and sense of 5. _______ and 6. _______
- unconscious
- battle
- instincts
- traumas
- morality
- society
what are the three parts to the theory of our minds?
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
pleasure principle – driven by the need to survive, reproduce, aggressive, seeks immediate gratification –> devil on our shoulder
Id
responds to the real world, manages, remediates Id and Superego
Ego
conscience and moral compass –> how we OUGHT to behave –> angel on our shoulder
Superego
what are the psychosexual stages?
- oral
- anal
- phallic
- latency
- gential
(0-18 months) – fixation on mouth-sucking, biting, and chewing
oral
(18-36 months) – fixation on bowel + bladder control; coping w/ demands for control
anal
(3-6 yrs) – pleasure zone in the genitals; Oedipus Complex (boys @ moms); Electra Complex (girls @ dads);; adopt their morals and beliefs, and gender identity at this phase
phallic
(6-puberty) – phase of dormant sexual feelings
latency
(puberty +) – maturation of sexual feelings
genital
overindulging or being under stimulated in any phase could cause ______
fixation
pleasure seeking fr. the childhood stage in an adult personality (smoking, overeating, seeking attention, etc)
fixation
to freud, society forces us to 1. _______ our desires, our 2. ____ manages the 3. ______ experienced by controlling + 4. ______ the desires of the 5. __ usually for the form of 6. _______
- control
- ego
- anxiety
- limiting
- Id
- repression
banishing anxiety w/ mental defense mechanisims
repression
our 1. ________ reveal themselves in 2. ______ and slip of 3. _______
- anxieties
- dreams
- tounge
constantly repressing a desire and saying something relating to it(?)
Freudian slip
when conflicted about overindulgence or inadequacy in our early childhood stages or confronted w/ trauma, the 1. _______ would either seek to 2. _______ to a early-stage 3. ______ or block the 4. ______
- brain
- indulge
- desire
- trauma
what are the 7 types of repressions?
- regression
- reaction formation
- projection
- rationalization
- displacement
- sublimation
- denial
retreating to a more infantile stage of development (sucking on your thumb when you start school for the first time ever)
regression
going back to your baby days and acting like a baby
regression
switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites (replacing angry emotions at a person by displaying exaggerated friendliness)
reaction formation
you REACT as a friend when really you’re trying to FORM connections
reaction formation
disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others (a thief thinks everyone is a thief)
projection
you PROJECT yourself as a bitch so you think that everyone else is a bitch too.
projection
offering self-justifying explanations in place of the more real, threatening unconscious reasons for one’s actions (an alcoholic would say she’s drinking w/ her friends to be sociable)
rationalization
you try to have a RATIONAL (real)IZATION that eating another cupcake w/ mom isn’t a bad thing
rationalization
shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward more acceptable or less threatening object or person
displacement
why brother DISPLACES his anger @ you when he’s made at mom
displacement
transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives (man w/ aggressive urges becomes a surgeon)
sublimation
you SUBMIT to being unsociable by choosing a science career
sublimation
refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities (a partner denies evidence of his loved one’s affair)
denial
your DENIAL when Hoya left Infinite (OT7)
denial
what did psychoanalysts use to decode the unconscious? (4-6)
- free association
- hypnosis
- dreams
- projective tests
4a. inkblot tests (subjective answers)
4b. thematic appreception test (TAT) (image, make a story)
say whatever comes to mind w/out fear of judgment
free association
discover unconscious desires or problems
hypnosis
gateway to unconscious –> interpretation of symbols and events w/in dreams to decode desires and issues of unconscious
dreams
modern research has shown that 1. _______ is extremely 2. _____ in cases of 3. _______
- repression
- rare
- trauma
research has shown that 1. ________ childhood issues or bringing them to the surface 2. _______ treats patients of 3. ________ or 4. _________
- resolving
- rarely
- anxiety
- trauma
psychoanalyst use ___________ ____ to attempt to decode an individual’s unconscious mind
projective tests
(psychodynamic) —> personality tests w/ unclear stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics (polluted w/ inconsistent results)
projective tests
makes a story about an ambiguous pic a clinician may presume any hopes, fears, or desires people see in the image are reflections of themselves and their unconsciousness
thematic appreception tests (TAT)
(Herman Rorschach) – show ambiguous inkblots and describe what you see (weapon or predatory animals? –maybe aggressive personality)
inkblot tests
believed childhood social tensions are crucial for personality
Alfred Adler
believed that much of behavior is driven to overcome childhood social tensions by EFFORTS TO CONQUER CHILDHOOD INFERIORITY FEELINGS that TRIGGER our STRIVINGS FOR SUPERIORITY ADN POWER
Alfred Adler
collective unconscious — believed in a common reservoir of images or arch types derived from our species universal experiences
Carl Jung
mothers are seen as nurturers across cultures —-> modern research has discounted inherited experiences
Carl Jung
