Chapter 3 Freuds Psychoanalyic Theory

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Anal stage

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Freuds concept for that period of life during which the major center of the bodily excitation or tension is in the anus

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Anxiety

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In psychoanalytic theory, a painful emotional experience that signals or alerts the ego to danger

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Castration anxiety

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Freuds concept of the boys fear, experienced during the phallic stage, that the father will cut off the sons penis because of their sexual rivalry for the mother

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Catharsis

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The release and freeing of emotion through talking about ones problems

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Conscious

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Those thoughts, experiences, and feelings of which we are aware

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Death instinct

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Freuds concept for drives or sources of energy directed toward death or a return to an inorganic state

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Defence mechanisms

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Freuds concept for those mental strategies used by the person to reduce anxiety. They function to exclude from awareness some thought, wish or feeling

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Denial

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The defence mechanism in which a painful internal or external reality is denied

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Ego

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Freuds structural concept for the part of personality that attempts to satisfy drives (instincts) in accordance with reality and the persons moral views

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Energy system

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Freuds view of the personality as involving the interplay among various forces (drives, instincts) or sources of energy

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Erogenous zones

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According to Freud, those parts of the body that are the sources of tension or excitation

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Free association

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In psychoanalysis, the patients reporting to the analysis of every thought that comes to mind

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Genital stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of development associated with the onset of puberty

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Id

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Freuds structual concept for the source of the instincts or all of the drive energy in people

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Identification

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The acquisition, as characteristics of the self, of personality charactierstics percieved to be part of others (parents)

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Isolation

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The defense mechanism in which emotion is isolated from the content of a painful impulse or memory

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Latency stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the stage following the phallic stage in which there is a decrease in sexual urges and interest

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Libido

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The psychoanalytic term for the energy associated first with the sexual instincts and later with the lift instincts

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Life instinct

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Freuds concept for drives or sources of energy (libido) directed towards the preservation of life and sexual gratification

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Mechanism

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An intellectual movement of the 19th century that argued that basic principles of natural science could explain not only the behaviour of physical objects, but also human thought and action

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Oedipus complex

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Freuds concept for expressing the boys sexual attraction to the mother and fear of castration by the father, who is seen as a rival

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Oral stage

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Freuds concept for that period of life during which the major center of bodily excitation or tension is the mouth

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Penis envy

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In psychoanalytic theory, the females envy of the males possession of a penis

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Perception without awareness

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Unconscious perception or perception of a stimulus without conscious awareness of such perception

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Perceptual defense

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The process by which an individual defends (unconsciously) against awareness of a threatening stimuli

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Phallic stage

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Freuds concept for that period of life during which excitation or tension begins to be centered in the genitals and during which there is an attraction to the parent of the opposite sex

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Pleasure principle

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According to Freud, psychological functioning based on the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain

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Preconscious

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Freuds concept for those thoughts experiences, and feelings of which we are momentarily unaware but can readily bring into awareness

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Primary process

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In psychoanalytic theory, a form of thinking that is not governed by logic or reality testing and that is seen in dreams and other expression of the unconscious

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Projection

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the defense mechanism in which one attributes to (projects onto) others ones own unacceptable instincts or wishes

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Rationalization

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The defense mechanism in which an acceptable reason is given for an unacceptable motive or act

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Reaction formation

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The defense mechanism in which the opposite of an unacceptable impulse is expressed

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Reality principle

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According to Freud, psychological functioning based on reality in which please is delyaed until an optimum time

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Repression

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The primary defense mechanism in which a thought, idea, or wish is dismissed from consciousness

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Secondary process

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In psychoanalytic theory, a form of thinking that is governed by reality and associated with the development of the ego

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Sublimation

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The defense mechanism in which the original expression of the instinct is replaced by a higher cultural goal

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Subliminal psychodynamic activation

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The research procedure associated with psychoanalytic theory in which stimuli are presented below the perceptual threshold (subliminally) to stimulate unconscious wishes and fears

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Superego

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Freuds structural concept for the part of personality that expresses out ideas and moral values

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Unconscious

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Those tohughts, experiences, and feelings of which we are unaware. According to Freud, this unawareness is the result of repression

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Undoing

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The defense mechanism in which one magically undoes an act or wish associated with anxiety