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Ch. 2 - Sigmund Freud Flashcards

1
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furthering life instinct e.g., eating, drinking, sleeping, sex

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Eros

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ending life instinct e.g., aggression

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Thanatos

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only part present at birth and entirely unconscious, the original source of libido

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Id

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immediate gratification

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Pleasure Principle

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inability to distinguish fantasy from reality

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Primary Process Thinking

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forms soon after birth from id’s libido and is (mostly) conscious, concerned with self-preservation

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Ego

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7
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delayed gratification

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Reality Principle

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logical thoughts directed at and cued by the environment

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Secondary Process Thinking

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allows humans to live in a society, contains the conscience (should not) and the ego ideal (should)

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Superego

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all the superego cares about is doing what’s right

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Perfection Principle

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11
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taking your own urges and saying someone else has them instead

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Projection

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12
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changing the object of your urge to something less threatening

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Displacement

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13
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rejecting all pleasurable urges to stave off one impulse

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Asceticism

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14
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attempt to undo the horror of something by doing something else not logically connected

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Undoing

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15
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go back to a time in your life when things were simpler

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Regression

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16
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inhibition of an anxiety-provoking thought by exaggerating its opposite

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Reaction Formation

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17
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taking on the characteristics of someone you admire

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Introjection

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18
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taking on characteristics of someone you hate

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Identification with the Aggressor

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19
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expressing an aggressive urge at someone with plausible deniability e.g., a backhanded compliment

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Compromise Formation

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come up with a logical/plausible but inaccurate excuse e.g., “sour grapes”

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Rationalization

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21
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removing emotion from a situation and looking logically at it

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Intellectualization

22
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a special variety of displacement; changing the object of your urge into something society finds useful

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Sublimation

23
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during times of stress, your behavior is influenced by that particular stage

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Fixation

24
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0-1 years old, libidinal energy is focused in mouth

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Oral Stage

25
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incorporative/sucking behaviors

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Early Oral Fixation

26
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biting behaviors

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Late Oral Fixation

27
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1-3 years old, libidinal energy focused in anus

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Anal Stage

28
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pleasure is derived from control

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Anal Retentive

29
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pleasure is derived from making messes

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Anal Expulsive

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3-5 years old, libidinal energy is focused in genitalia

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Phallic Stage

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6-12 years old, libidinal energy isn’t focused in a particular place

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Latent Stage

32
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adolescence onward, libidinal energy is again in genitalia but object is reproductive

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Genital Stage

33
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a patient responds to the analyst as if they were an important person in the patient’s life

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Transference

34
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an analyst forming an emotional attachment to a patient

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Countertransference

35
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instructing the patient to say whatever comes to mind no matter how irrelevant, threatening, or nonsensical it may seem

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Free Association

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(1) a source, which is a bodily deficiency of some kind; (2) an aim, which is to remove the bodily deficiency, thereby establishing an internal balance; (3) an object, which is the experience or object that reduces/removes the bodily deficiency; and (4) an impetus, which is determined by the magnitude of the bodily deficiency

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Instinct

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responding automatically to a source of irritation e.g., sneezing

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Reflex Action

38
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the conjuring of an image that is capable of satisfying a biological need

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Wish Fulfillment

39
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ego finds environmental experiences capable of satisfying the needs of the id or superego

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Reality Testing

40
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the internalized experiences for which the child had been consistently punished

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Conscience

41
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the internalized experiences for which the child had been consistently rewarded

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Ego Ideal

42
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more or less fixed energy available to drive the entire personality

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Psychic Energy

43
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investment of psychic energy in the image of an object that’ll satisfy a need

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Cathexis

44
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expenditure of energy to prevent a cathexis that would cause anxiety

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Anticathexis

45
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unconscious processes that falsify or distort reality to reduce or prevent anxiety

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

46
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learned response of “not thinking” an anxiety-provoking thought

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Repression

47
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state of info that is in the unconscious mind but hasn’t been repressed

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Preconscious

48
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boy’s fear he’ll lose his penis because they are regarded as the source of difficulty between the boy and his father

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Castration Anxiety

49
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various mechanisms that distort a dream’s latent content

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Dream Work

50
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a dream element represents several ideas at the same time

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Condensation

51
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resynthesizing dream elements after they’ve been distorted by dream work

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Secondary Revision

52
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the manifestation of repressed thoughts in everyday living

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Parapraxes

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