Dr. Sigmund Freud

Question 1

Psychic structure

Answer 1

Core assumptions of psychoanalytic theory and technique.

Id, ego, and superego.

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

Unorganized reservoir of energy. Instincts and reflexes you have at birth. Libido and aggression drives. Governed by pleasure. These are unconscious, must be interpreted from dreams, free associations, slips of the tongue, daydreams, and neurotic synaptic formation (pruning).

Question 3

Neurosis

Answer 3

Form of psychological stress that is intense but not severe.
Ie. mild depression
No longer in the dsm

Question 4

Ego

Answer 4

Modified by it’s interaction of the external world. Reality principle. Postpones the discharge of energy until an appropriate situation occurs. It doesn’t challenge the id’s pleasure seeking motivation, just temporarily suspends it for the sake of reality. Ego is the logical, ordered aspect of personality. Reason and judgement.

Question 5

Superego

Answer 5

Internal representation of parental and societal values. Strives for ideal rather than real. Structure evolves as child is developed. It has two levels.
Conscience: fosters morally right behavior by inhibiting pleasure impulses, and persuading the ego to attend moral rather than realistic goals.
Ego ideal: promotes idealistic and perfectionistic goals.

Question 6

Defense mechanisms

Answer 6

Ego is in conflict conflict with the id, superego, and reality. Guilt happens from the ego allowing the id to get satisfaction, and the superego is punishing it. If id is not satisfied, person experiences pressure until other outlet is found. Conflict was a basic component of personality in early psychoanalytic theory. To relieve pressure…FIND IT

Question 7

Repression

Answer 7

Unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed back into the unconscious
Ie. a woman is unable to recall that she was raped

Question 8

Denial

Answer 8

Refusal to accept of acknowledge an anxiety producing piece of information

Question 9

Reaction formation

Answer 9

Thinking or behaving in a way that is the extreme opposite of unacceptable urges or impulses
Ie. adolescent boys go out of their way to annoy and tease girls because of their attraction to them

Question 10

Rationalization

Answer 10

A distortion of reality in which a person justifies what happened.
Ie. saying you didn’t really want the award that you were passed over for

Question 11

Displacement

Answer 11

The expression of an unwanted feeling or thought is redirected from a more threatening powerful person to a weaker one
Ie.brother yells at his younger sister after a teacher gives him a bad grade

Question 12

Sublimation

Answer 12

Diversion of unwanted impulses into socially approved thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
Ie. a person with strong feelings of aggression becomes a soldier

Question 13

Projection

Answer 13

Attributing unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else.

Ie. a man who is angry at his father acts lovingly to his father but complains that his father is angry with him

Question 14

Undoing

Answer 14

A form of unconscious repentance that involves neutralizing or atoning for an unacceptable action or thought with a second action or thought.
Ie. a woman who gets a tax refund by cheating on her taxes makes a larger than usual donation to the church collection the following Sunday

Question 15

Regression

Answer 15

People behave as if they were at an earlier stage of development.
Ie. a boss has a temper tantrum when an employee makes a mistake.

Question 16

Anxiety

Answer 16

Anxiety is the signal that an impulse is seeking expression, it’s caused by an underlying conflict.

Question 17

Primary process

Answer 17

Unconscious mental processes that are characterized by a lack of logic, by ease of substitution with one idea or another, and by an immediate discharge of energy.
It is governed by the Id, and functions according to the pleasure principle.
Ie. jokes, slips of the tongue, impulsive statements

Question 18

Secondary process

Answer 18

Governed by conscious part of the ego, are logical and sequential and function according to the reality principle.

Question 19

Psychosexual development

Answer 19

Freud’s stages. Psychological manifestation of sexual drives. Erogenous zones include mouth, anus, and genital region.
To move on to the next stage libido must be freed from the previous erogenous zone.
Difficulty moving onto next stage if frustration(not enough) or overindulgence(too much) occurs.
Fixation happens in both cases and part of the libido remains permanently invested in previous developmental stage.

Question 20

Oral stage

Answer 20

Two phases
Eroticism, sucking or taking things in the mouth.
Sadism, agressive drive, biting, and chewing maybe destructively.
Can be stuck in either stage. Erotic-optimistic. Sadistic-pessimistic.

Question 21

Gential stage

Answer 21

Libido is back to genital area, although now heterosexual instead of autoerotic, last stage. As long as libido isn’t much lost in previous stages, they can live a normal life with adult relationships.

Question 22

Phallic stage

Answer 22

4-5 years old, libido in general region

Question 23

Anal stage

Answer 23

Controlling fecal movements