CHAPTER 2 (Freud) Flashcards
Sigmund Freud was born in what month?
Either March or May 1856
Freiberg, Moravia where Freud lived, is now known part of?
Czech Republic
What was the name of his parents?
Jacob and Amalie Freud
In Freud’s personal experiences, what had a significant impact on his psychic development?
The death of Freud’s brother, Julius
Who did Freud formed a close professional association with that lead to the publication of “Studies on Hysteria” in 1895?
Josef Breuer
In 1885, Freud studied under French neurologist _________, where he learned the hypnotic technique for treating hysteria.
Jean Martin Charcot
What is known as his groundbreaking work that was completed in 1899?
Interpretation of Dreams
In 1910, the __________ was established.
International Psychoanalytic Association
What are the three Levels of Mental Life?
Unconscious, Preconscious and Conscious
It comprises of drives, urges, or instincts that operate beyond conscious awareness but significantly influence words, feelings, and actions.
Unconscious
It provides a rich source of unconscious material, including childhood experiences.
Dreams
What is the censor blocking the passage between the unconscious and the preconscious?
Primary Censor
What is the censor blocking the passage between the preconscious to conscious?
Final Censor
Freud proposed that a portion of the unconscious stems from the experiences of early ancestors passed down through generations. What is this called?
Phylogenetic Endowment
It consists of elements that are not currently conscious but can become conscious relatively easily, either promptly or with some difficulty.
Preconscious
What are the two Sources of Preconscious Content?
Conscious Perception and
Unconscious
Ideas from ________can enter the preconscious when attention shifts away from them. These ideas alternate between consciousness and the preconscious.
Conscious Perception
Freud proposed that ideas, disguised to slip past the censor, enter the preconscious. Some of these images remain ________ due to the potential anxiety they may cause.
Unconscious
What are the two characteristics of Preconscious Images?
Free from Anxiety and Similarity to Conscious Images
It refers to mental elements currently in awareness. It is the only level directly accessible to individuals at any given moment.
Conscious
What are the two sources of Conscious Elements?
Perceptual Conscious System and Within the Mental Structure
What are the three Provinces of the Mind?
Id, Ego and Superego
It operates on the pleasure principle, constantly striving to reduce tension by satisfying basic desires.
Id (das Es)
Governed by the reality principle, it substitutes for the pleasure principle of the id.
Ego(das Ich)
Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality, guided by moralistic and idealistic principles.
Superego (das Uber-Ich)
People are motivated to seek _______ and reduce tension and anxiety.
Pleasure
What are the four dynamics of Personality?
Drives
Sex
Aggression
Anxiety
Defined as a felt, affective, unpleasant state with a physical sensation warning against impending danger.
Anxiety
Anxiety that arises from unknown danger linked to unconscious id impulses.
Neurotic anxiety
Anxiety that results from the conflict between the ego and superego.
Moral anxiety
Anxiety that involves an unpleasant feeling of possible danger without a specific object.
Realistic anxiety
It’s purpose is to avoid dealing directly with sexual and aggressive impulses and to defend against the anxiety that accompanies them.
Defense Mechanisms
Involves putting more effort and focus into other aspects to outweigh perceived weaknesses.
Compensation
Is the refusal to accept reality or that something exists
Denial
Attaching to something positive
Identification
Refers to a behavior when individuals ruminate on previous events, replaying and reimagining them as a way to change what happened and, as a result, help protect against certain feelings or behaviors
Undoing
Is using logic or reasoning to justify something upsetting.
Rationalization
When the ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protects itself by repressing those impulses into the unconscious.
Repression
A repressed impulse becomes conscious through adopting a disguise directly opposite its original form.
Reaction Formation
It involves redirecting unacceptable urges into different objects or people to disguise the original impulse.
Displacement
It involves the permanent attachment of libido to a previous developmental stage.
Fixation
During times of stress and anxiety, the libido reverts back to an earlier stage of development.
Regression
The ego attributes unwanted impulses or feelings to another person, usually to reduce anxiety.
Projection
Individuals incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego.
Introjection
The genital aim of Eros is repressed and substituted with a cultural or social aim.
Sublimation
Phase where infants derive pleasure from sucking and feeding.
Oral Phase
(Oral Phase)
_______where infants incorporate the nipple into their bodies for pleasure
_________characterized by biting and aggressive behavior.
Oral-receptive period
Oral-sadistic period
Phase that is characterized by the emergence of the anus as a sexually pleasurable zone.
Anal Phase
(Anal Phase)
_______ marked by aggression
________ marked by interest in feces
Early anal phase
Late anal phase
Phase where it is marked by the genital area becoming the primary erogenous zone.
Phallic Phase
Boys initially identify with their fathers but later develop sexual desires for their mothers, leading to rivalry with their fathers.
Male Oedipus Complex
They identify with their mothers and later develop sexual desires for their fathers, harboring hostility toward their mothers.
Female Oedipus Complex
This phase involves a suppression of sexual drive, redirected towards nonsexual activities like school and hobbies.
Latency Period
Phase where adolescents redirect sexual energy towards others, and reproduction becomes possible.
Genital Period
Where suppressed thoughts are more likely to appear in dreams, leading to increased dream distress.
Dream-rebound effect
These faulty acts, termed _______ or Freudian slips, are typically dismissed by individuals as insignificant, but Freud insisted they have meaning.
Parapraxes
