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Question 1

scientific perplexity

Answer 1

scientific theories that interpreted the physical world and life as complex and multidimensional

Question 2

creative perplexity

Answer 2

new forms of reflection and expression in the arts and other human activities

Question 3

psychological resistance

Answer 3

situations in which patients were reluctant or unable to discuss their psychological problems with a therapist

Question 4

Psychoanalysis

Answer 4

Understanding resistances by using the free associations (occurrences) method and focusing on catharsis

Question 5

free association

Answer 5

patient is asked to make a chain of associations, starting from a word suggested by the therapist and then naming anything that comes to mind

Question 6

seduction hypothesis

Answer 6

Children establish attachments to parents but also develop sexual attachments and phantasies. As they get older, they repress such sexual desires

Question 7

wish fulfillment

Answer 7

a symbolic attempt to realize an unfulfilled desire; the discharge of a tension by imagining a satisfying situation
-dreams are wish fulfillment

Question 8

Oedipus complex

Answer 8

the repressed desire of a person for sex relations with the parent of the opposite sex

Question 9

unconscious processes

Answer 9

mostly repressed desires and memories of a person

Question 10

what do dreams contain

Answer 10

manifest (the story) and latent contents (repressed desires

Question 11

libido theory

Answer 11

form of sexual expression common in both women and men. an instinctual and irrational determiner of both conscious and unconscious processes

Question 12

castration anxiety

Answer 12

irrational fear in men of loss of the genitals

Question 13

transference

Answer 13

the process by which patients shift emotions applicable to another person onto the psychoanalyst

Question 14

the unconscious

Answer 14

activities not open to direct conscious scrutiny but influencing conscious process and behavior

Question 15

id

Answer 15

the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to basic urges, needs, and desires.

Question 16

superego

Answer 16

moral guide with unconscious features that tells us what we should and should not do

Question 17

ego

Answer 17

Making compromises between the id and the environment is the ego, Guided by the reality principle

Question 18

what are the 2 major mechanisms that formulate and regulate function of the unconscious and ego

Answer 18

pleasure and reality principle

Question 19

analysand

Answer 19

a person undergoing psychoanalysis; a patient or client

Question 20

organ inferiority

Answer 20

a wide range of physical or psychological difficulties that become impediments

Question 21

compensation

Answer 21

attempts to overcome the discomfort and negative experiences caused by a person’s inferiority feelings

Question 22

Compensatory behavior results in one of three outcomes:

Answer 22

degeneration, genius, and neurosis

Question 23

genius

Answer 23

compensation brings success and a life free from pain and inferiority

Question 24

degeneration

Answer 24

attempted compensation is unsuccessful and person falls out of normal course of life

Question 25

neurosis

Answer 25

individual is sliding from comfortable to difficult times

Question 26

the collective unconscious (jung)

Answer 26

an impersonal layer in human psyche, different from the individual unconscious

Question 27

archetypes

Answer 27

content of the collective unconscious

Question 28

analytical psych

Answer 28

term used by jung to distinguish his views from Freud’s ideas.

Question 29

goals of jungian therapy

Answer 29

individuation: process of a person’s psychological growth and awareness of his or her own individuality