Chapter 11 Flashcards
At what age is each of the stages?
Oral- 0-18 months Anal- 18-36 months Phallic- 3-6 years Latency- 6-puberty Genital- puberty on
What does it mean to be fixated at a particular stage?
Locking the persons pleasure-seeking energies at the unresolved energies at the unresolved stage.
Example: abrupt early weaning, became stalled at the oral stage
Regression
A little boy reverts to the oral comfort of thumb sucking in the car on the way to his first day of school.
Reaction formation
Repressing angry feelings, a person displays exaggerated friendliness.
Unacceptable impulse into their opposites
Projection
Disgusting ones own threatening impulse by attributing them to others.
“The thief thinks everyone else is a thief”
Rationalization
Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions.
Habitual drinker says she drinks with her friends “just to be sociable”
Displacement
Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
A little girl kicks the family dog after her mother sends her to her room.
Denial
Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities
A partner denies evidence of his loved ones affair
What are Freud’s five psychosexual stages in order?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
What would Freud label someone who was fixed on the oral stage?…anal stage?
Children pass through series of PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES from oral to genital.
What are the main emphases of psychoanalytic theory?
Personal structures
Personal development
Defense mechanisms
Unconscious
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Informational processing which we are unaware.
Conscious
The ego/superego-tries to satisfy the id’s impulses in realistic ways that will bring long term pleasure rather than pain of destruction.
Preconscious
Lies between conscious awareness and the unconscious. Focuses on how one ought to behave in s perfect world.
What techniques might a psychodynamic therapist use to discover the unconscious?
PROJECTIVE TESTS-describe an unclear picture or tell a story about it. It has no real meaning. What the test takers read into it can be considered a projection of their unconscious feelings and conflict.
Describe id
id-stores unconscious energy. Satisfy our basic drives to survive reproduce and be aggressive. Operates in the pleasure principle.
Define ego
Operates on the reality principle.
Conscious mind, tries to satisfy the id’s impulses in realistic ways that will bring long-term pleasure rather than pain or destruction.
Define superego
Focuses the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal.
How it ought to be in a perfect world
Positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt
Which id, ego, and superego is ruled by pleasure principle?
id
Which id, ego, or superego ruled by reality principle?
Ego
In the good and bad angel on the shoulder analogy, who represents the id, ego, superego?
id-devil
Ego-person
Superego-angel
What is defense mechanism?
Is psychoanalytic theory, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Define Oedipus complex
According to Freud, a boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
Define Electra complex
old-fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls.
