Freud Flashcards
Greatest contribution to personality theory
exploration of the unconscious and insistence that people are motivated primarily by drives of which they have little or no awareness
Two levels of mental life
unconscious & conscious
Two levels of unconscious
unconscious and preconscious
The three levels of mental life are used to…
designate both a process and a location
Existence as a specific location has…
no real existence within the body
What does the unconscious contain?
drives, urges, or instincts beyond our
awareness which motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions
Certain kinds of forgetting
Repression
Unconscious is the explanation for the meaning behind…
dreams, slips of the tongue, and certain kinds of forgetting
Serve as a particularly rich source of unconscious material
Dreams
Freud believed that ___________ can appear in adult dreams even though the dreamer has no conscious recollection of these experiences.
childhood experiences
Unconscious processes often enter into consciousness but only after being
disguised or distorted enough to elude censorship
Freud used the analogy of a guardian or censor blocking the passage between the unconscious and preconscious and preventing…
undesirable anxiety-producing memories from entering awareness
To enter the conscious level of the mind, unconscious images first must be sufficiently disguised to slip past the ________ and then they must elude a __________.
primary censor ; final censor
Watches the passageway between the preconscious and the conscious.
final censor
The undesirable anxiety-producing memories enter our conscious mind but due to the primary censor and final censor, we see them as…
relatively pleasant, non-threatening experiences
we no longer recognize them for what they are
