Freud Flashcards
Psychoanalysis
employs techniques of free association and dream analysis to recover forgotten or repressed desires or memories that are the root of one’s problems
repression
Freud’s term for the process through which the I rids itself potentially harmful desires, driving them underground, into the unconscious.
infantile sexuality
Freud’s term for sexual development that takes place during the first few years of life
oedipus complex
Freud’s term for the tendencey in early childhood to experience sexual desires towards one’s parent of the opposite sex.
pleasure principle
Freud’s term for our most funamental striving toward pleasure
reality principle
Freud’s term for the principle, governing the “I”, that takes into account both the desires of “IT” and the practicalities of the external world.
Vahinger
argues that reality cannot be truly known but that human beings construct systems of thought and act as if reality corresponds with these constructions.
libido
pschosexual energy originating in the “IT”; it powers our urges and desires; is the basic fuel of our actions.
Chronos
Greek god of time who castrated his father Uranus, and who was castrated by his son Zeus
Zeus
Greek god of heaven who uses thunderbolts at those who displease him.
phylogony
the evolutionary development and history of a kind of organism.
embryology
the study of embryos