Class 7 Flashcards
ego
regulates the conflict, reality testing
id
self and survival of the self
2 type of drives
sexual and aggression
defense mechansim
defending the ego, maintaining the equilibrium, regulate tension, can be mature or immature. Mature: sublimation (transform into art, physical activity), humour, self-observation, affiliation, association,
neurotic defense mechanisms
intellectualisation, rationalisation
borderline defenses
acting out, reaction formation (transformation d’une chose inappropriée en son exact inverse)
object relation
how are relationships formed and how later in life they are used. other object is projected outwards: seek out this person that matches what you expect or force the situation
common theme of all the psychoanalytic theories
understanding the unconscious, development aspect
contre-idenfication
take on characteristics of the introjected other
self psychology
critical experiences that have to happen that fundamentally influence your self
mirroring transference
first experiences with feedback, you perceive whether you’re doing a good or bad thing according to attachment figure’s reaction. Feedback has to be timely, appropriate, right quantity. If you don’t get positive feedback = poor self-esteem. You can perceive how other people react to you.
Idealization
after mirroring, people are already elevated on a pedestal (attachment figures) and they take care of you.
Something bad happens, do you have hope that it will still be okay. Self-confidence. Ability to cope with bad things later in life
twinship
As a child, gain sense of who you are in this family. feel like yourself, an integrated person. Then add more people in your life. You have to be you with your friends is different that how you’re you with your family. The way your figure out who you’re going to be with your friends: twin yourself, twin starts to change, realise what you’re suppose to be like with your friends. modify the twin until it works with the new environment that you’re in. Twins are new you s that are accepted in new environments. Eventually, integrate the twins together.,
If something goes wrong with the twinning
not accepted by your peers= one of the twins got damaged and the twin will be integrated in a damaged form = low self esteem
contre-indications to psychodynamic therapy
no absolute, need introspection and interest in going back to childhood and talking about parents