Freud Flashcards
What is Sigmund Freud most famous for?
Freud also known as father of modern psychology and pschyoanalysis. His most famous works include the Odepius complex, dream analysis and sexual development and etc
What basic assumption does freud make in most of his theories?
Personality has innate biological components: shared and inherited and Innate components are affected y experience such as early childhood, family and culture
What are the four humours and what do they show?
Need to keep the four in balance otherwise, imbalance -> ill-health. Each humour associated with a personality type.
Blood
Associated with a sanguine personality, positive, confident and passionate
- Phelgm
Associated with a phlegmatic personality, being sluggish, dull or cool-headed - Yellow bile
Associated with a choleric personality, being quick to anger or choleric - Black bile
Associated with a melancholic or depressed personality
Define Cathexis
Libido, the energy of life affirming impulses, is invested by a person in various activities, people, objects and goals -> libido is not only about sexuality and sexual desires; it is about survival, propagation and similar life-producing drives.
Define EROS
Neurosis can be cured through the process of catharsis which allows the catheter energy to be released, also known as EROS
Define Thanatos
Death drive is the drive towards self-destruction, death and chaos. It functions as a balance against the libido
What are the layers and parts of the psyche?
- Layers - conscious, preconscious and unconscious
- Parts - id, superego and ego
Explain the layers on the psyche?
- Conscious - which we know, small portion of the psyche
- Preconscious - which we can know, just below consciousness and it can be made conscious
- Unconscious - can’t be known directly and it can be represented as instincts, repressed materials and impulses
Explaind the parts of the psyche?
- The Id (Rockstar) - the goal is to reduce tension and in crease pleasure, it is the basic material of personality where logic and reason don’t apply. It knows no values, no good and evil, no morality. It is also not in contact with the external world
- The superego (The legal team) - bearer of moral codes, standards of contact and inhibitions. The internalised parent figure and it has three functions: conscience, self-observation and formation of ideals. It is also in partial contact with the external world
- The ego (Manager) - serves the id’s demands. Protects the whole psyche’s health, safety and sanity. It is contact with the external world and it negotiates between the id and the super-ego
What is TAT (thematic appreciation test) ?
- Developed by Murray in early 1940’s at Harvard ands used at a time when LGBTI was considered pathological as some pictures target sexual themes.
- It is a set of 20 black and white ambiguous pictures
What was Anna Freud’s biggest contributions to psychology?
Defence Mechanisms
What are defence mechanisms and where do they come from?
It’s the ego way of protecting the psyche from internal and external tension. And defence mechanisms are derived from genetics, environmental factors, family and community.
What are the types of defence mechanisms?
- Repression
- Denial
- Rationalism
- Reaction formation
- Projection
- Identification
- Regression
- Sublimation
What is repression (DM)?
Definition: abrupt and involuntary removal from awareness of any threatening impulse, idea or memory (deposited into the unconscious) and it avoids reality (motivated forgetting) and its unconscious yet active and will find a way to be expressed (Freudian slips)
- Most dangerous and one the most archaic defence mechanisms, often considered a prerequisite for other mechanisms
What is denial (DM)?
Definition: blocking of external events from entry to awareness when perception of such stimuli is symbolically or associatively related to threatening impulses. Denial ab polishes dangers “out there” by negating them
