Freud & Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Freud, of course, was fortunate that his name did not become indelibly tied to cocaine. Instead, his name has become associated with _____ (freud)
psychoanalysis
Sigismund (Sigmund) Freud was born either on
March 6 or May 6, 1856
a disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper functioning of certain parts of the body (freud)
hysteria
the process of removing hysterical symptoms through “talking them out.” (freud)
catharsis
He spent 4 months with ______, from whom he learned the hypnotic technique for
treating (freud)
Jean-Martin Charcot
_________ constitute a firsthand
account of the beginnings of psychoanalysis and reveal the embryonic stage of
Freudian theory. (freud)
Freud’s letters to Fliess
Why did Freud abandon his once-treasured seduction theory?
First, he said, the seduction theory had not enabled
him to successfully treat even a single patient.
Second, a great number of fathers, including his own, would have to be accused of sexual perversion because hysteria was
quite common even among Freud’s siblings.
Third, Freud believed that the unconscious mind could probably not distinguish reality from fiction, a belief that later
evolved into the Oedipus complex.
Fourth, he found that the unconscious memories of advanced psychotic patients almost never revealed early childhood sexual
experiences
Freud’s official biographer
Ernest Jones
Freud’s personal physician
Max Schur
the book that established sex as the cornerstone of psychoanalysis
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
the book that proposed that jokes, like dreams and Freudian slips, have an unconscious meaning.
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Freud’s greatest contribution to personality theory is
his exploration of the unconscious and his insistence that people are motivated primarily by drives of which they have little or no awareness
mental life is divided into two levels _____ and _____ (freud)
unconscious and conscious
unconscious, in turn, has two different levels, (freud)
unconscious proper and preconscious
Because its sole function is to seek pleasure, we say that the id serves the ______ (freud)
pleasure principle
As the region that houses basic drives (primary motivates), the id operates through the (freud)
primary process.
The ego is governed by the _______, which it tries to substitute for the pleasure principle of the id. (freud)
reality principle
The superego has two subsystems (freud)
the conscience and the ego-ideal
In Freudian psychology, the superego, or above-I, represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality and is guided by the (freud)
moralistic and idealistic principles
the mouth and anus are especially capable of producing sexual pleasure and are
called ______ zones. (freud)
erogenous
Infants are primarily self-centered, with their libido invested almost exclusively in their own ego. (freud)
primary
narcissism
During puberty, however, adolescents often redirect their libido back to the ego and become preoccupied with personal appearance and other self-interests (freud)
secondary narcissism
is the need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person (freud)
Sadism
explains the need for the barriers that people have
erected to check aggression (freud)
aggressive drive
