Freud Flashcards
Freud book that introduced the world to freudian Slip
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Freud, Adler, Stekel, Kahane, and Reitler formed _____
Wednesday Psychological Society
Two levels of mental life
Unconscious and Conscious
Unconscious has two different levels:
Unconscious proper and Preconscious
Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions
Unconscious
The unconscious is the reason for a certain kind of forgetting called ___
Repression
Punishment and Suppression often create feelings of __
Anxiety
Anxiety in turn stimulates _____, which is the forcing of unwanted experiences into the unconscious.
Repression
Quite similar to Carl Jung’s idea of Collective Unconscious
Phylogenic Endowment
contains all of those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
Preconscious
Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time
Conscious
What we perceive through our sense organs, if not too threatening, enters our conscious mind through ________
Perceptual Conscious System
The most primitive part of the mind
Id
Because it’s sole function is to seek pleasure, we say that the id serves the ______
Pleasure Principle
The personification of an Id unencumbered by restrictions of ego and superego
Newborn Infant
The only region of the mind in contact with reality
Ego
Ego grows out from __ during infancy
Id
Ego is governed by the _____
Reality Principle
Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality
Superego
Superego is guided by the ____
Moralistic/Idealistic Principles
The ego becomes differentiated from th id when infants __________
Distinguish themselves from the outer world
Superego grows out of the ___
Ego
Two subsystems of supergeo
Conscience and Ego-ideal
Results from experiences with punishments and tells us what we should not do
Conscience
Develops from experiences with rewards and tells us what we should do
Ego-ideal
A pleasure-seeking person is dominated by the
Id
A guilt-ridden or inferior feeling person is dominated by the
Superego
A stimulus within a person
Drives (Instinct)
Drives can be grouped into 2 headings:
Eros (Life Instinct)
Thanatos (Death Instinct)
Libido is invested almost exclusively on their own ego
Primary Narcissism
Adolescents often redirects their libido back to the ego and becomes preoccupied with appearance and self-interest
Secondary Narcissism
A felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns against impending danger
Anxiety
Three kinds of anxiety
Neurotic, Moral, & Realistic
Apprehension about an unknown danger
Neurotic Anxiety
Stems from conflict between the ego and superego
Moral Anxiety
Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger
Realistic anxiety
Repressed impulse becoming conscious through adopting a disguise that is directly opposite from its original form
Reaction Formation
People redirect their unacceptable urges to people or objects so the original impulse is diguised or concealed
Displacement
Permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier, more primitive stage of development
Fixation
During times of stress and anxiety, the libido revert back to an earlier stage
Regression
Reducing anxiety by attributing unwanted impulse to an external object, usually another person
Projection
Extreme type of projection. A mental disorder characterized by powerful delusions of jealousy and persecution
Paranoia
When people incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego
Introjection
Repression of the genital aim by substituting a cultural or social aim. Is expressed in creative cultural accomplishments.
Sublimation
