Exam 1_Fromm,Erikson,Anna, Freud Flashcards
What is necessary to find love?
Identity
Explain what Fromm meant about human freedom causing problems.
Freedom leads to isolation and loneliness. Loneliness leads to knowledge of death. Which, leads to despair and desperate to escape freedoms.
What is the human dilemma?
When you become aware of your isolated condition.
Explain the three types of escape people use to avoid loneliness?
Authoritarianism: You give up independence to unite with powerful partner. Submitting to authority relieves the responsibility of making their own decisions. (Law enforcement, church goers)
Destructiveness: Powerless people use destructiveness to cope. You attempt to eliminate threats to feel safe. By becoming all powerful, you no longer fear loneliness.(Terrorists, addicts)
Conformity: You surrender individuality to be accepted by others.
Explain (not just list) the five human needs and how do human needs differ from animal needs?
Relatedness: When you can unite with another person outwith losing individuality. May take forms of love, power, or submission.
Creativity: Transcending the world via love of our creations.
Rootedness: Feeling at home and secure so that we explore beyond the securities of our mother.
Identity: Awareness of ourselves as a separate person.
Orientation: Road map or philosophy that helps us set goals in the world.
Explain the four non-productive characters and how they differ from productive characters.
Receptive: All good lies outside of yourself. Only way to relate to the world is to receive love, knowledge, material objects.
Exploitative: All good lies outside of yourself. They use force to take what they want.
Hoarding: Save what they have obtained.
Marketing: Empty vessels that see themselves as commodities.
A productive persona value themselves for who they are and relate to the world without distortions.
Who was Anna Freud?
Youngest of Freud’s six children. She was the only one to enter into psychoanalysis. her main focus was of pediatrics and ego defensive.
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
A person identifying with the aggressor (hostages, victims) react with admiration and gratitude to the captors/abusers.
Explain what A. Freud meant by healthy ego development.
When the ego decreases its dependency on external controls.
What are the 6 developmental lines of ego?
- Children progress from dependency to emotional self-reliance
- Progress from sucking to eating
- Wetting and soiling to bowel control
- Irresponsibility to responsible body management
- Play to work
- Egocentricity to companionship
What happened to Erikson while growing up that shook his identity?
His parents concealed the fact that he was adopted until he was 14, leading to identity crisis.
What is the role of ego according to Erikson?
A creative problem solver. It provides coherence to experiences over time. It has a unifying purpose that leads to self-image and conduct.
Explain the 8 stages and virtues of psychosocial development.
Trust vs Mistrust: Hope (maternal)
Autonomy vs Shame&Doubt: Willpower (parents)
Initiative vs Guilt: Purpose
Industry vs Inferiority: Competence (school)
Identity vs Role confusion: Fidelity (peers)
Intimacy vs Isolation: Love (lover, friends)
Generativity vs Stagnation: Care (family, society)
Integrity vs Despair: Wisdom (all humans)
What happens to the personality if a person does not resolve a stage?
They become fixed and no further growth is possible.
