FINAL - Personality Flashcards
Psychic energy
Generated by instinctual drives pressing for release
Id
Present at birth Unconscious Functions irrationally Eg. eating drinking sex Follows PLEASURE PRINCIPLE and PRIMARY PROCESS THEORY
Id - Pleasure principle
Maximize pleasure, minimize pain
Id - primary process theory
If needs can be met with fantasy
Ego
Second to develop
Follows the REALITY PRINCIPLE
Executive of personality
Balances SuperEgo and Id
Reality Principle
Tests reality to decide when the Id can safely discharge its impulses
Superego
Last to develop (4/5yo) In charge of morals Ideas from Parents Decides whether Ego has been good or bad Pride and Guilt
3 sources of anxiety in Psychodynamic perspective
Reality
Neurotic
Moral
Reality anxiety
Fear of real world threats
Neurotic anxiety
Fear of Ids desires
Moral anxiety
Fear of Superegos guilt
Defense mechanisms (11)
- Repression
- Denial
- Sublimation
- Projection
- Regression
- Intellectualization
- Reaction formation
- Conversion
- Displacement
- Isolation
- Rationalization
Repression
Pushed to subconscious
Denial
Denying
Sublimation
Released in socially acceptable behaviour
Projection
Attributing impulse to other people
Eg. i hate her cause she hates me
Regression
Mentally returning to an earlier safer state
Eg. Thumb sucking, bed wetting
Intellectualization
Situation treated as an intellectually interesting event
Reaction formation
Exaggerated opposite behaviour
Hostility shows thru
Eg. React to hating your sister by talking abt how much u luv her
Conversion
Conflict converted into physical symptom
Eg. Develop blindness so that u wont have to see the situation
Displacement
Use a secondary goal as an outlet
Eg getting angry at something else
Rationalization
Hitting my kids for their own good
If i cant get it, it must not be good (fox and grapes)
Isolation
Memories allowed back into consciousness but without motives or emotion
Sublimation
Released in a socially acceptable/admired behaviour
Unc - dreams
Not constrained by reality (ego) and morality (superego)
- anxiety can still be aroused
- have latent (surface) and manifest (deep) content
Unc - Free association
- freud opts for this over hypnosis
- patient is to say anything
- analyst looks for association and resistance
Unc - errors of speech and memory
Freudian slips
Absent mindedness
Freud believes these are motivated
Eg. Ross sayin rachels name
Superior
Above
