Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud Flashcards

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Overview: Psychoanalysis could not be subjected to eclecticism. True or False.

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True.

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Overview: Relied more on which type of reasoning.

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Deductive Reasoning.

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Overview: Famous French Neurologist from whom Freud learned the hypnotic technique for treating hysteria.

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Jean-Martin Charcot.

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Overview: A disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper functioning of certain parts of the body.

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Hysteria.

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Overview: What is Hysteria called today?

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Conversion Disorder AKA Functional Neurological Disorder

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A well-known Viennese physician who is 14 years older who taught Freud about Catharsis—the process of removing hysterical symptoms through “talking them out.”

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Josef Breuer.

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Wandering Womb.

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Hysteria.

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Believed that Freud suffered from a severe psychoneurosis
during the late 1890s, although Max Schur, Freud’s personal physician during the final decade of his life, contended that his illness was due to a cardiac lesion, aggravated by addiction to nicotine.

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Ernest Jones.

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Why did Freud have difficulties with so many former friends?

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“It is not the scientific differences that are so important; it is usually some other kind of animosity, jealousy or revenge, that gives the impulse to enmity. The scientific differences come later”.

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Wednesday Psychological Society, formed by 5 men, with Freud as discussion leader.

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Freud, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel, Max Kahane, and Rudolf Reitler.

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Freud and his followers founded with Carl Jung of Zürich as president.

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International Psychoanalytic Association. (IPA)

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Levels of Mental Life.

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Unconscious and Conscious.

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Levels of Mental Life: 2 different levels of Unconscious.

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Unconscious proper and preconscious.

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Levels of Mental Life: Inherited unconscious images that originated from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations of repetition.

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Phylogenetic Endowment.

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Levels of Mental Life: 2 sources of Preconscious contents.

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  1. Conscious Perception - what a person perceives
  2. Unconscious - ideas can slip past the vigilant censor and enter into the preconscious in a disguised form.
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Levels of Mental Life: Ideas can reach consciousness from 2 different directions.

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  1. Perceptual Conscious System - what we perceive through our sense organs, if not too threatening, enters into consciousness.
  2. Within the mental structure - includes
    nonthreatening ideas from the preconscious as well as menacing but well-disguised images from
    the unconscious.
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Provinces of the Mind.

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das Es or ID
das Ich or Ego
das Uber-Ich or Super Ego

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Refer to the structure or composition of personality.

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Levels of Mental Life

Provinces of the Mind.

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Dynamics of Personality, or

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Motivational Principle.

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4 Dynamics of Personality

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Drives, Sex, Aggression, and Anxiety

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Dynamics of Personality: Trieb refers to a drive or a stimulus within the person.

2 Major Headings: sex or Eros and aggression, distraction, or Thanatos.

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A drive’s amount of force it exerts.

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Region of the body in a state of excitation or tension.

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To seek pleasure by removing that excitation or reducing the tension.

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The person or thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied.
Object.
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4 forms of Sex.
narcissism, love, sadism, and masochism
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Teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor, and the enjoyment of other people’s suffering. Present in everyone and is the explanation for wars, atrocities, and religious persecution.
Aggression.
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Final aim of the aggressive drive is
Self-destruction.
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Stages of Development:
The First 4 or 5 years of life, or the infantile stage, are the most crucial for personality formation. This stage is followed by a 6- or 7-year period of latency during which time little or no sexual growth takes place. Then at puberty, a renaissance of sexual life occurs, and the genital stage is ushered in. Psychosexual development eventually culminates in maturity.
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Masturbation. originated during the ____ stage.
oral
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Female Oedipus Complex - when the girl holds her mother responsible for bringing her into the world without a penis.
Turned into hostility.
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Pre-Oedipal girls acknowledge their castration and recognize their inferiority to boys, they will rebel in one of three ways:
1. Give up their sexuality — both the feminine and the masculine dispositions—and develop an intense hostility toward their mother 2. Cling defiantly to their masculinity - hoping for a penis and fantasizing about being a man 3. May develop normally
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Refers to the strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop toward their analyst during the course of treatment.
Transference
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permits patients to more or less relive childhood experiences within the nonthreatening climate of the analytic treatment
Positive transference
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Form of hostility must be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome any resistance to treatment
Negative transference
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Surface meaning or the conscious description is given by the dreamer
Manifest content
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Refers to its unconscious dream material.
Latent content - only has meaning
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Exception to the rule that dreams are wish fulfillments.
Patients suffering from a traumatic experience
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Found in people with posttraumatic stress disorder who repeatedly dream of frightening or traumatic experiences.
Principle of repetition compulsion
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Dream: unconscious psychic material to adopt a disguised form. The 2 basic ways:
1. Condensation - manifest dream content is not as extensive as the latent level 2. Displacement - dream image is replaced by some other idea only remotely related to it
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3 typical anxiety dreams:
1 embarrassment dream of nakedness, 2 dreams of the death of a beloved person, and 3 dreams of failing an examination
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Related Research: The philosopher of science who proposed the criterion of falsifiability, contrasted Freud’s theory with Einstein’s and concluded that the former was not falsifiable and therefore not science.
Karl Popper