Freud Flashcards

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Psychoanalysis

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employs techniques of free association and dream analysis to recover forgotten or repressed desires or memories that are the root of one’s problems

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repression

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Freud’s term for the process through which the I rids itself potentially harmful desires, driving them underground, into the unconscious.

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infantile sexuality

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Freud’s term for sexual development that takes place during the first few years of life

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oedipus complex

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Freud’s term for the tendencey in early childhood to experience sexual desires towards one’s parent of the opposite sex.

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pleasure principle

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Freud’s term for our most funamental striving toward pleasure

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reality principle

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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.

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Vahinger

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argues that reality cannot be truly known but that human beings construct systems of thought and act as if reality corresponds with these constructions.

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libido

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pschosexual energy originating in the “IT”; it powers our urges and desires; is the basic fuel of our actions.

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Chronos

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Greek god of time who castrated his father Uranus, and who was castrated by his son Zeus

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Zeus

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Greek god of heaven who uses thunderbolts at those who displease him.

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phylogony

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the evolutionary development and history of a kind of organism.

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embryology

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the study of embryos

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