9: Freud Flashcards
What did Freud study with Charcot?
Hysteria
What did Freud and Charcot attribute hysteria to?
Repressed childhood experiances
What was the pressure technique used by Freud?
He would apply pressure to the forehead of the client every time he felt they were having a mental block during free association
What is free association?
A technique used by Freud where patients were asked to let their mind run free and report in detail what they were thinking
What were the major points of Freud’s work, the interpretation of dreams?
Dreams are a way to the unconscious primary processes
Dreams are wish fufillment
Dreamwork process
Latent and manifest content
What is manifest content?
The parts of the dream that we remember
What is latent content?
The true meaning of the dream
What is the dreamwork process?
How latent content becomes manifest content
What were the major points in Freud’s work, Theory of Sexuality?
Hysteria and perversions are opposite of each other
We avoid being perverted by correctly going through the psychosexual stages
What did Freud argue about sexual repression?
If you repress too much, you become hysterical
If you don’t repress enough, you’re a pervert
What were the major points in Freud’s work, Totem and taboo?
The totems of tribes show that they’re more influenced by the libido than western societies which have repressed it
How did WW1 influence Freud’s ideas?
He observed shell shock which was similar to hysteria. It had no sexual cause so he argued that other things could cause it
He then developed the death drive (Thanatos) as an alternative to sexual drives
What are defense mechanisms?
Ways of protecting the ego and dealing with unwanted impulses and mental conflicts
What are some examples of defense mechanisms?
Displacement Projection Sublimination Denial Rationalisation Identification
What is the displacement defense mechanism?
Blaming or attacking an easy target
