Freud and the Neo Freudians Flashcards
Three levels of the mind in Freud’s topographical system
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
Part of the mind in Freud’s topographical system that is aware
Conscious
Part of the mind in Freud’s topographical system that can be brought into awareness
Preconscious
Part of the mind in Freud’s topographical system that is unaware and works on the pleasure principle
Unconscious
Elements in Freud’s structural theory
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Element of Freud’s structural theory that operates according to the ‘pleasure principle’ without a sense of time
Id
Element of Freud’s structural theory that acts as a conscience and observes the person’s behaviour critically
Super ego
Element of Freud’s structural theory that modifies the drives from the Id with the ideal behaviours of the super ego
Ego
Neo Freudian who believed that the main driving force in personality is a striving for superiority
Alfred Adler
Neo Freudian who created the concepts of the persona and the shadow (the part of the ego presented to the world vs. the more secret part)
Carl Jung
Neo Freudian who differentiated between the personal unconscious containing an individual’s memories, and the collective unconscious - a set of memories shared by all of humanity
Carl Jung
Neo Freudian who described the female archetype called the anima, and the male archetype called the animus
Carl Jung
Neo Freudian who is known for his stages of psychosocial development
Erik Erikson
Neo Freudian who developed interpersonal therapy
Harry Stack Sullivan
Neo Freudian who developed theories on group dynamics, and created the idea of the basic assumption group
Wilfred Bion
Neo Freudian who developed attachment theory
John Bowlby
Neo Freudian who further developed Freud’s concept of defence mechanisms
Anna Freud
Neo Freudian who developed transference based therapy, still used by people with emotionally unstable personality disorder
Otto Kernberg
Neo Freudian who created theories on child development, suggesting the autistic phase, the symbiotic phase and the seperation-individuation phase
Margaret Mahler
Neo Freudian who introduced the concept of the good enough mother
Donald Winnicott
Neo Freudian who introduced the concept of the transitional object
Donald Winnicott
Neo Freudian who founded analytic psychology
Jung
Term used by Jung to describe humankind’s collective symbolic past
Collective unconsious
Term used by Jung to describe images that represent human experience and are consistent throughout cultures
Archetypes
Term used by Jung to describe the unconscious feminine aspects of men
Anima
Term used by Jung to describe the unconscious masculine aspects of women
Animus
