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Chapter 2 - Freud Flashcards

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Aggressive drive

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The compulsion to destroy, conquer, and kill.

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Anxiety

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A feeling of fear and dread without an a virus cause: reality anxiety, neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety

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Reality anxiety

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Fear of tangible dangers

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Neurotic anxiety

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Conflict between ID and EGO

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Moral anxiety

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Conflict between ID and SUPEREGO

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Case study

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A detailed history of an individual that contains data from a variety of sources

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Castration anxiety

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A boy’s fear during the Oedipal period that his penis will be cut off

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Catharsis

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The expression of emotions that is expected to lead to the reduction of disturbing symptoms

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Cathexis

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An investment of psychic energy in a object or person

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Complex

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JUNG - core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status

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Conflict

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HORNEY - basic incompatibility of the neurotic trends

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Conscience

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A component of the superego that contains behaviors for which the child has been punished

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Death instincts

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The unconscious drive towards decay, destruction, and aggression

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Defense mechanisms

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Strategies the ego use to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by conflicts of everyday life. Involve denials or distortions of reality

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Denial

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Denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic event

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Displacement

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Shifting ID impulses form a threatening object or from one that is unavailable to an object that is available; for example replacing hostility towards one’s boss with hostility toward one’s child

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Ego

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FREUD - rational aspect of the personality, responsible for directing and controlling the instincts according to the reality principle

JUNG - conscious aspect of personality

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Ego-ideal

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A component f the superego that contains the moral or ideal behaviors for which a person should strive

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Electra complex

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During phallic stage (ages 4-5), the unconscious desire of a girl for her father, accompanied by a desire to replace or destroy her mother

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Fixation

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A condition in which a portion of libido remains invested in one of the psychosexual stages because of excessive frustration or gratification

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Free association

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A technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind - kind of daydream out loud

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Id

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The aspect of personality allied with instincts; the source of psychic energy, the I’d operates according to the pleasure principle

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Instincts

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Mental representations of internal stimuli, such as hunger, that drive a person to take certain actions

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Latency period

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Period from approx. age 5 to puberty, during which the sex instinct is dormant, sublimated in school activities, sports, and hobbies, and in developing friendships with members of the same sex

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Libido

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FREUD - form of psychic energy, manifested by the life instincts that drives a person toward pleasurable behaviors and thoughts

JUNG - broader and more generalized form of psychic energy

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Life instincts

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The drive for ensuring survival of the individual and the species by satisfying the needs for food, water, air, and sex

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Oedipus Complex

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During the phallic stage (ages 4-5) the unconscious desire of a boy for his mother, accompanied by a desire to replace or destroy his father

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Penis envy

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The envy the female feels toward the male because the male possesses a penis; this is accompanied by a sense of loss because the female does not have a penis

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Pleasure principle

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The principle by which the ID functions to avoid pain and maximize pleasure

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Primary-process thought

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Childlike thinking by which the ID attempts to satisfy the instinctual drives

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Projection

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Attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality and system of therapy for treating mental disorders

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Psychosexual stages of development

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Oral, anal, phallic, and gentian stages through which all children pass. In these stages, gratification of the ID instincts depend on the stimulation of corresponding areas of the body

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Punishment

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The application of an assertive stimulus following a response in an effort to decrease the likelihood that the response will recur

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Rationalization

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A defense mechanism that involves reinterpreting our behavior to make it more acceptable and less threatening to us

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Reaction formation

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Expressing ID impulse that is the opposite of the one that is truly driving the person

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Regression

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Retreating to an earlier, less frustrating period of life and displaying the usually childish behaviors characteristic of that more secure time

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Repression

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Unconscious denial of the existence of something that causes anxiety

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Resistance

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In free association, a blockage or refusal to disclose painful memories

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Secondary-process thought

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Mature thought processes needed to deal rationally with the external world

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Sublimation

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Altering or displacing ID impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable behaviors

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Subliminal perception

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Perception below the threshold of conscious awareness

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Superego

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Moral aspect of personality; the internalization of parental and societal values and standards

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Id

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Aspect of personality allied with instincts; the source of psychic energy, the id operates according to the pleasure principle

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