Freud Flashcards
Freud believed that ___ was a result of being seduced during childhood by a sexually mature person.
Hysteria
Levels of mental life
Unconscious
Preconscious
Conscious
Unconscious processes originate from 2 sources:
Repression and phylogenetic endowment
Person who helped Freud treat hysteria through hypnotic technique
Jean-martian-charcot
Characterized by depression, neurosis, psychosomatic ailments, intense preoccupation with some form of creative activity
Creative illness
A defense mechanism where ego attempts to do away with unpleasant experiences and their consequences usually by means of repetitious ceremonial actions.
Undoing
A defense mechanism marked by obsessive thoughts and involves the ego’s attempt to isolate an experience by surrounding it with a blacked-out region of insensibility
Isolation
2 sources of preconscious
Conscious perception and unconscious
What age is superego established
4-5 years of age
Ego acts contrary to the moral standards of the superego
Guilt
Ego unable to meet superego’s standard for perfection
Feelings of inferiority
Instinct: amount of force exerted
Impetus
Instinct: region of the body in a state of excitation or tension
Source
Instinct: seek pleasure by removing excitation or reducing tension
Aim
Instinct: person/thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied
Object
Libido invested exclusively to the ego in children
Primary narcissism
Redirect libido back to the libido and become preoccupied with personal appearances, interests
Secondary narcissism
Develops when libido is invested on others
Love
Second kind of love
Aim-inhibited
Extreme type of projection
Paranoia
Period in the anal phase where satisfaction received by destroying or losing objects
Early anal period
Period in anal phase where interest stems from pleasure of defecatihg
Late anal period
If too strict toilet training they will develop….and also the mode of narcissistic and masochistic pleasure
Anal character
Anal triad
Stinginess, obstinacy and orderliness
