Chapter 2: Sigmund Freud Flashcards
Freiberg, Moravia
Freud’s birthplace, now part of the Czech Republic
Jacob & Amalie Nathanson Freud
Freud’s parents
Vienna, Austria
Freud’s home for nearly 80 years
Julius
Freud’s brother who died at 6 months of age, Freud was jealous of him; Freud harbored an unconscious wish for his death
University of Vienna Medical School
Where Freud studied
Why Freud didn’t continue his work
As a jew, he believed his opportunities for academic achievement would be limited
His father became less able to provide monetary aid
General Hospital of Vienna
Where Freud worked for 3 years, becoming familiar with the practice of various branches of medicine, including psychiatry and nervous diseases
Jean-Martin Charcot
French Neurologist that Freud worked with for 4 months. Freud learned the hyptonic technique for treating hysteria
Hysteria
Disorder characterized by paralysis on the improper functioning of certain parts of the body
Josef Breuer
Viennese physician who taught Freud about catharsis
Catharsis
The process of removing hysterical symptoms through talking them out
Free Association Technique
Discovered while using catharsis; replaced hypnosis as his principal therapeutic technique
Reasons why Freud abandoned the Seduction Theory
The seduction theory had not enabled him to successfully treat even a single patient.
A great number of fathers would have to be accused of sexual perversion because hysteria was common even among Freud’s siblings
Freud believed the unconscious mind could probably not distinguish reality from fiction
The unconscious memory of advanced psychotic patients almost never revealed early childhood sexual experiences
Books written by Freud
Interpretation of Dreams Psychopathology of Everyday Life Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious On Dreams
Wednesday Psychological Society
Former name of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
Freud, Adler, Stekel, Kahane, & Reitler were original members
Carl Jung
Designated the Crown Prince and the Man of the Future
Two levels of mental life
Conscious and unconscious
Two levels of the unconscious
Unconscious and Preconscious
Unconscious
Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions
Dreams
Serve as a particularly rich source of unconscious material
To enter the conscious level of the mind
Unconscious images must be disguised to slip past the primary censor and elude a final censor that watches the passageway between the preconscious and the conscious
Punishment and suppression
Create feelings of anxiety which in turn stimulates repression
Repression
The forcing of unwanted, anxiety-ridden experiences into the nconscious as a defense against the pain of that anxiety
Phylogenetic endowment
Freud’s term for inherited unconscious images
Preconscious level of the Mind
Contains elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
Sources of Preconscious Images
Conscious Perceptions and Unconscious
How ideas reach consciousness
Perceptual conscious system and within the mental structure and includes nonthreatening ideas from thepreconscious as well as menacing but well-disguised images from the unconscious
Id
Sole function is to seek pleasure; serves the pleasure principle; unrealistic, illogical and can simultaneously entertain incompatible ideas; primitive, chaotic, inaccessible to the consciousness, unchangeable, amoral, illogical, unorganized, and filled with energy received from basic drives and discharged for the satisfaction of the pleasure principle; operates through the primary process
Ego
Only regiono f the mind in contact with reality; grows out of the id; Governed by the reality principle; partly conscious, partly preconscious, and partly unconscious; tries to reconcile the blind, irrational claims of the id and the superego with the realistic demands of the external world
Defense Mechanisms
Defends the ego against anxiety