Freud Flashcards
forcing unwanted, anxiety ridden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against the pain of the anxiety
Repression
This defense mechanism is the repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim (e.g. doing a charity work)
Sublimation
This defense mechanism whereby people incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego. (e.g. picking up how your friends talks)
Introjection
refer to a drive or a stimulus within the person.
“Trieb”
” Satisfaction gained through aggressive behavior” what stage of development is this?
Anal phase
fear of losing the penis.
Castration anxiety
“parents’ attempts to punish or discourage
sexual activity in their young children. “ what stage of development is this?
Latency stage
contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
Preconscious
This defense mechanism redirect their unacceptable urges into a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised or concealed (e.g. Lashes out to their family after a tiring day at work)
Displacement
areas capable of producing sexual pleasure
Erogenous zones
is the need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person.
Sadism
thinking to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often that has been repressed.
Neurosis
Which province of the mind becomes a person’s sole source of communication with the external world?
Ego (Reality principle)
This defense mechanism can be defined as seeing in others unacceptable feelings or tendencies that actually reside in one’s own unconscious (e.g. judging other people but scared to be judged)
Projection
the need for pleasure from suffering pain and humiliation inflicted by themselves or others.
Masochism
apprehension about an unknown danger (e.g Oral, tasks, etc.)
Neurotic Anxiety
What are the 2 core human motives according to Freud?
Sex and Aggression
Which province of the mind represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality and is guided by the moralistic and idealistic principle?
Superego (Moralistic principle)
a stage attained after a person has passed through the earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner
Maturity
stems mainly from a powerful death wish or instinct (Thanatos) possessed by all persons
Aggression
stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego
Moral Anxiety
This condition of rivalry toward the father and believed that preceding the phallic stage an infant boy forms an identification with his father; that is, he wants to be his father
Male Oedipus complex
the process of removing hysterical symptoms through “talking them out.”
Catharsis
This defense mechanism adopts a disguise that is directly opposite its original form. (e.g. Love to Hate, Hate to Love)
Reaction Formation
to refer to what many people now simply call “Freudian slips.”
arise due to unconscious intentions interfering with conscious ones and which manifest as slips of tongue
Parapraxes
Freud believed that a portion of our unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations of repetition
Phylogenetic Endowment
Which province of the mind has no contact with reality, yet it strives constantly to reduce tension by satisfying basic desires?
ID (pleasure principle)
an unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger (e.g. Driving in an unfamiliar city)
Realistic Anxiety
This defense mechanism is temporary or long term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development instead of handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult manner (e.g. “going back”)
Regression
This defense mechanism has the permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier, more primitive stage of development
(e.g. Oral fixation- smoking, eating, or talking. Anal fixation- neatness)
Fixation
Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivates most of our words, feelings, and actions
Unconscious
“The mouth is the first organ to provide an infant pleasure, and it gets pleasure through the act of sucking” what stage of development is this?
Oral phase
disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper
functioning of certain parts of the body
Hysteria
