Chapter 3 Freuds Psychoanalyic Theory Flashcards
(40 cards)
Anal stage
Freuds concept for that period of life during which the major center of the bodily excitation or tension is in the anus
Anxiety
In psychoanalytic theory, a painful emotional experience that signals or alerts the ego to danger
Castration anxiety
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
Catharsis
The release and freeing of emotion through talking about ones problems
Conscious
Those thoughts, experiences, and feelings of which we are aware
Death instinct
Freuds concept for drives or sources of energy directed toward death or a return to an inorganic state
Defence mechanisms
Freuds concept for those mental strategies used by the person to reduce anxiety. They function to exclude from awareness some thought, wish or feeling
Denial
The defence mechanism in which a painful internal or external reality is denied
Ego
Freuds structural concept for the part of personality that attempts to satisfy drives (instincts) in accordance with reality and the persons moral views
Energy system
Freuds view of the personality as involving the interplay among various forces (drives, instincts) or sources of energy
Erogenous zones
According to Freud, those parts of the body that are the sources of tension or excitation
Free association
In psychoanalysis, the patients reporting to the analysis of every thought that comes to mind
Genital stage
In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of development associated with the onset of puberty
Id
Freuds structual concept for the source of the instincts or all of the drive energy in people
Identification
The acquisition, as characteristics of the self, of personality charactierstics percieved to be part of others (parents)
Isolation
The defense mechanism in which emotion is isolated from the content of a painful impulse or memory
Latency stage
In psychoanalytic theory, the stage following the phallic stage in which there is a decrease in sexual urges and interest
Libido
The psychoanalytic term for the energy associated first with the sexual instincts and later with the lift instincts
Life instinct
Freuds concept for drives or sources of energy (libido) directed towards the preservation of life and sexual gratification
Mechanism
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
Oedipus complex
Freuds concept for expressing the boys sexual attraction to the mother and fear of castration by the father, who is seen as a rival
Oral stage
Freuds concept for that period of life during which the major center of bodily excitation or tension is the mouth
Penis envy
In psychoanalytic theory, the females envy of the males possession of a penis
Perception without awareness
Unconscious perception or perception of a stimulus without conscious awareness of such perception