Freud - Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Freud: Cornerstones of Psychoanalysis Theory
Sex and aggression
Freud: Levels of mental life
Unconscious (unconscious proper & preconscious) and conscious.
Freud: What is phylogenetic endowment?
Portion of unconscious from experiences of early ancestors
Freud: How do unconscious thoughts get into consciousness?
Disguised or distorted to elude primary and final censors.
Freud: Sources of preconscious
Conscious perception (for a moment) and unconscious.
Freud: Provinces of the mind
Id, Ego, Superego
Freud: What are the three principles for Id, Ego, Superego?
Id: Pleasure
Ego: Reality
Superego: moralistic and idealistic
Freud: What are the three drives described to Freud?
Sex – narcissism, love, sadism/masochism
Aggression – destructive drive to return to inorganic state
Anxiety – unpleasant state with sensation warning of danger.
Freud: What are the types of anxiety according to Freud?
Neurotic anxiety – about unknown danger
Moral anxiety – from conflict between ego and superego
Realistic anxiety – related to fear. Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling of danger.
Freud: ____ is defensively pushing an impulse to the unconscious.
Repression
Freud: ___ is a repressed impulse becoming conscious in a form opposite to the original.
Reaction formation
Freud: _____ is the substitution of a cultural aim in place of another impulse.
Sublimation
Freud: List the major stages of development
- Infancy
- Latency
- Genital period
- Maturity
Freud: List the infantile sub-stages of development
- Oral – oral-receptive, oral-sadistic phase
- Anal (early, late)
- Phallic phase (incl. castration anxiety, penis envy)
Freud: Events that are not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are contents of the _____.
Preconscious
Freud: When does the superego begin to form?
After the Oedipus Complex is resolved.
Freud: What terms describe the surface meaning and the unconscious material in dreams?
Manifest content (surface) Latent content (unconscious)
Freud: What’s another name for a Freudian slip?
Parapraxes
Freud: What do parapraxes reveal?
Unconscious impulses
Freud: Childhood behaviors related to sex and aggression, when punished, lead to ___ or ____.
Repression or anxiety
Freud: Childhood experiences not associated with anxiety but merely forgotten are make up the contents of the _____.
Preconscious
Freud: The most basic defense mechanism against anxiety is ____.
Repression
Freud: What are the three substages of the infantile stage?
Oral, anal, phallic
Freud: The Oedipus complex occurs in which infantile stage?
Phallic
Freud: During the simple Oedipal stage, what does the child desire?
Sexual union with one parent while feeling hostility for the other.
Freud: Define repression, as Freud used the term.
The forcing of unwanted, anxiety-laden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against pain.
Freud: Describe the defense of displacement.
Redirecting unacceptable behavior from one person to another. E.g. blame a pet instead of spouse.
Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development.
Fixation
Freud: ____ is a defense mechanism in which the ego attributes one’s own unwanted impulse to another person.
Projection
Freud: Describe introjection.
A defense mechanism in which people incorporate positive qualities of another person in their ego.
Freud: What is sublimation?
The repression of a genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim.
Freud: What are the phases of the oral stage?
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.
Freud: What are the phases of the anal stage?
Early anal period – satisfaction by destroying objects
Late anal period – takes a friendly interest in feces, may present to parent as a prize.
Freud: Anal eroticism transforms into the ___ ___ of orderliness, stinginess, and obstinacy.
Anal triad
Freud: Describe the latency stage
From year 4/5 to puberty, children often go through a period of dormant psychosexual development.
Freud: What’s a common cause of the latency stage?
Parents’ attempts to punish or discourage sexual activity in their young children.
Freud: Freud believed that __ and __ are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.
Dreams and Freudian slips
Summarize Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
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.
Freud: What’s the most basic defense mechanism?
Repression
Freud: Describe the reaction formation defense mechanism.
An impulse adopting a disguise opposite from its original form.
Freud: Describe the displacement defense mechanism.
Redirecting unacceptable urges onto other ppl or objects. e.g. taking anger out on your cat, not your boss.
Freud: Describe the fixation defense mechanism.
Fixation: Remaining at a present, more comfortable psychological stage.
Freud: Describe the regression defense mechanism
Reverting back to an earlier stage
Freud: Describe the projection mechanism
Seeing in others unacceptable feelings that actually side in one’s own unconscious.
Freud: Describe the introjection mechanism
Incorporate positive qualities of another into one’s own ego
Freud: Describe the sublimation mechanism
Replacing a genital aim with a cultural or social one.
