Freud: Psychoanalysis Flashcards
a young, ambitious physician who came to believe that he had
discovered a drug that had all sorts of wonderful properties
Sigmund Freud
Overview of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
(1) postulated the primacy of sex and aggression-two universally popular themes, (2) attracted a group of followers who were dedicated to spreading psychoanalytic doctrine, (3) advanced the notion of unconscious motives, which permit varying explanations for the same observations.
born either on March 6 or May 6, 1856, in Freiberg,
Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic.
Freud
he stated that the mother/son relationship was the most perfect, the most free
from ambivalence of all human elations ·ps
Freud
a disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper
functioning of certain parts of the body.
hysteria
A famous French neurologist whom Freud spent 4 months with to learn the hypnotic technique for treating hysteria
Jean-Martin Charcot
the process of removing hysterical
symptoms through “talking them out.” While using catharsis, Freud gradually and laboriously discovered the free association technique, which soon replaced hypnosis as his principal therapeutic technique.
catharsis
-Taught Freud about catharsis
- a well-known Viennese physician
14 years older than Freud and a man of considerable scientific reputation
Josef Breuer
uterus traveling throughout women’s bodies and causing various parts to malfunction.
wandering womb
a Berlin physician who served as a sounding board
for Freud’s newly developing ideas.
Wilhelm Fliess,
Freud’s official biographer
Ernest Jones
, Freud’s personal physician during the final decade of his life
Max
Schur (1972)
a condition
characterized by depression, neurosis, psychosomatic ailments, and an intense preoccupation with some form of creative activity.
creative illness
Levels of Mental Life
Unconscious, preconscious, Conscious
