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Freud - Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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Freud: Cornerstones of Psychoanalysis Theory

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Sex and aggression

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Freud: Levels of mental life

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Unconscious (unconscious proper & preconscious) and conscious.

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Freud: What is phylogenetic endowment?

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Portion of unconscious from experiences of early ancestors

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Freud: How do unconscious thoughts get into consciousness?

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Disguised or distorted to elude primary and final censors.

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Freud: Sources of preconscious

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Conscious perception (for a moment) and unconscious.

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Freud: Provinces of the mind

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Id, Ego, Superego

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Freud: What are the three principles for Id, Ego, Superego?

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Id: Pleasure
Ego: Reality
Superego: moralistic and idealistic

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Freud: What are the three drives described to Freud?

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Sex – narcissism, love, sadism/masochism
Aggression – destructive drive to return to inorganic state
Anxiety – unpleasant state with sensation warning of danger.

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Freud: What are the types of anxiety according to Freud?

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Neurotic anxiety – about unknown danger
Moral anxiety – from conflict between ego and superego
Realistic anxiety – related to fear. Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling of danger.

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Freud: ____ is defensively pushing an impulse to the unconscious.

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Repression

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Freud: ___ is a repressed impulse becoming conscious in a form opposite to the original.

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Reaction formation

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Freud: _____ is the substitution of a cultural aim in place of another impulse.

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Sublimation

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Freud: List the major stages of development

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  1. Infancy
  2. Latency
  3. Genital period
  4. Maturity
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Freud: List the infantile sub-stages of development

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  1. Oral – oral-receptive, oral-sadistic phase
  2. Anal (early, late)
  3. Phallic phase (incl. castration anxiety, penis envy)
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Freud: Events that are not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are contents of the _____.

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Preconscious

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Freud: When does the superego begin to form?

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After the Oedipus Complex is resolved.

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Freud: What terms describe the surface meaning and the unconscious material in dreams?

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Manifest content (surface)
Latent content (unconscious)
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Freud: What’s another name for a Freudian slip?

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Parapraxes

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Freud: What do parapraxes reveal?

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Unconscious impulses

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Freud: Childhood behaviors related to sex and aggression, when punished, lead to ___ or ____.

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Repression or anxiety

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Freud: Childhood experiences not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are make up the contents of the _____.

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Preconscious

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Freud: The most basic defense mechanism against anxiety is ____.

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Repression

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Freud: What are the three substages of the infantile stage?

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Oral, anal, phallic

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Freud: The Oedipus complex occurs in which infantile stage?

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Phallic

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Freud: During the simple Oedipal stage, what does the child desire?

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Sexual union with one parent while feeling hostility for the other.

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Freud: Define repression, as Freud used the term.

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The forcing of unwanted, anxiety-laden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against pain.

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Freud: Describe the defense of displacement.

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Redirecting unacceptable behavior from one person to another. E.g. blame a pet instead of spouse.

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Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development.

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Fixation

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Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which the ego attributes one’s own unwanted impulse to another person.

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Projection

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Freud: Describe introjection.

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A defense mechanism in which people incorporate positive qualities of another person in their ego.

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Freud: What is sublimation?

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The repression of a genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim.

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Freud: What are the phases of the oral stage?

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Early oral – receiving the nipple.
Oral-receptive – needs are satisfied with minimum frustration or anxiety until scheduled feedings and weaning.
Oral-sadistic – emergence of teeth, leading to biting, cooing, etc.

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Freud: What are the phases of the anal stage?

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Early anal period – satisfaction by destroying objects

Late anal period – takes a friendly interest in feces, may present to parent as a prize.

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Freud: Anal eroticism transforms into the ___ ___ of orderliness, stinginess, and obstinacy.

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Anal triad

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Freud: Describe the latency stage

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From year 4/5 to puberty, children often go through a period of dormant psychosexual development.

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Freud: What’s a common cause of the latency stage?

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Parents’ attempts to punish or discourage sexual activity in their young children.

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Freud: Freud believed that __ and __ are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.

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Dreams and Freudian slips

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Summarize Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

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Freud relied mostly on deductive reasoning and identified:

  • Cornerstones of his psychoanalysis: sex and aggression
  • 3 levels of mental life: unconscious, pre-conscious, and conscious.
  • Three provinces of the mind: id (pleasure principle), ego (reality) and superego (moralistic).
  • Four stages of development: infantile (oral, anal, phallic), latency, genital, maturity.

Dreams and Freudian slips reveal unconscious intentions, so Freud used dream analysis and free association to help strengthen the ego.

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Freud: What’s the most basic defense mechanism?

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Repression

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Freud: Describe the reaction formation defense mechanism.

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An impulse adopting a disguise opposite from its original form.

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Freud: Describe the displacement defense mechanism.

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Redirecting unacceptable urges onto other ppl or objects. e.g. taking anger out on your cat, not your boss.

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Freud: Describe the fixation defense mechanism.

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Fixation: Remaining at a present, more comfortable psychological stage.

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Freud: Describe the regression defense mechanism

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Reverting back to an earlier stage

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Freud: Describe the projection mechanism

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Seeing in others unacceptable feelings that actually side in one’s own unconscious.

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Freud: Describe the introjection mechanism

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Incorporate positive qualities of another into one’s own ego

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Freud: Describe the sublimation mechanism

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Replacing a genital aim with a cultural or social one.

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