Chapter 2. Freud: Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Freud called his theory and associated techniques ________.
psychoanalysis
Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective proposed that ________ and ________ influence personality.
childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations
It is when the patient is asked to relax and say whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing or trivial.
free association
3 levels of mental life
- unconscious
- preconscious
- conscious
Early childhood experiences that create high levels of anxiety are repressed into the _________.
unconscious
Events that are not associated with anxiety but are merely forgotten make up the contents of the ________.
preconscious
________ images are those in awareness at any given time.
Conscious
3 provinces of the mind
id, ego, and superego
The id is unconscious, chaotic, out of contact with reality, and in service of the _________.
pleasure principle
The ego is the executive of personality, in contact with the real world, and in service of the ________.
reality principle
The superego serves the ______ and _________.
moral and idealistic principles
Aka impulse; a stimulus within an individual.
drives
2 drives according to Freud;
- Sex or libido
2. Aggression
It is a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensationthat warns the person against impending danger.
Anxiety
What is apprehension about an unknown danger and stems from the ego’s relation with the id?
Neurotic anxiety
This is similar to guilt and results from the ego’s relation with the superego
Moral anxiety
What is similar to fear and is produced by the ego’s relation with the real world?
Realistic anxiety
These are tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety in various ways, but always by distorting reality.
defense mechanism
A defense mechanism that
pushes threatening thoughts
into the unconscious.
repression
A defense mechanism that pushes away threatening impulses by overemphasizing the opposite in one’s thoughts and words.
reaction formation
A defense mechanism in
which one refuses to
acknowledge anxiety
provoking stimuli.
denial
Defense mechanism in which
anxiety arousing impulse are
externalized by placing onto
others.
projection
Defense mechanism in which the
target of one’s unconscious fear or
desire is shifted away from true
cause.
displacement
Defense mechanism where
dangerous urges are transformed
into positive, socially acceptable
forms.
sublimation
Defense mechanism where one
returns to a earlier, safer stage of
one’s life to escape present
threats.
regression
Defense mechanism where after the fact (post hoc) logical explanations for behaviors that were actually driven by internal unconscious motives.
rationalization
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
- Oral (0-18 months)
- Anal (18-36 months)
- Phallic (3-6 years)
- Latency (6 to puberty)
- Genital (puberty on)
A child desires sexual union with one parent while harboring hostility for the other.
Oedipus complex (electra complex: girls)
Freud believed that _______ and ___________are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.
dreams and slips of the tongue
