FREUD PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Flashcards
Sigmund Freud’s theory suggests that human behavior is
influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and
urges. This theory also proposes that the psyche
comprises three aspects: the id, ego, and superego. The
id is entirely unconscious, while the ego operates in the
consiiuous mind.
STAGE 1:
FREUD PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
A measure of the demand made upon the mind for gratifying bodily needs. Our biological ____________ largely govern our behavior.
INSTINCT
These instinctive urges seek to preserve life. Each of us is motivated satisfy our hunger, thirst and sexual needs.Without food and water, we could not survive. The energy associated with these instincts he termed libido.
Life (Eros)
He believed that “the goal of all life is death” (Freud, 1952b, p. 652)—that human beings strive to return to an inorganic state of balance that preceded life, in which there is no painful struggle to satisfy biological needs.
DEATH (thanatos)
STAGE 2
STAGE 2: THE STRUCTURAL MODEL: ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO
According to Freud, the ___ is the source of all
psychic energy, making it the primary
component of personality.
Id (das es) *present at birth
According to Freud, the ____ develops from the id
and ensures that the impulses of the id can be
expressed in a manner acceptable in the real
world.
Ego (das ich) age 2
According to Freud, the ____ begins to emerge at around a age five.
Superego (das Uber-Ich) age 5
CONCIOUS, PRECONCIOUS, UNCONCIOUS
TAGE 3: The Topographic Model:
Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious
STAGE 4
STAGE 4: Stages of Psychosexual Development
-An infant is controlled by biological impulses and is basically selfish. The focus of pleasurable sensations or “during the first pregenital stage is the mouth.
ORAL
Overeating, gullible, smoking
Oral Receptive
Shouting, nagging, being sarcastic argumentative
Oral Aggressive
During the second and third years, pleasurable sensations are focused on the anal cavity: the chief pleasures for the child involve retention or expulsion of feces.
ANAL
messy, lack of commitment
Anal-expulsive
obsessive in cleanliness,stingy
ANAL RETENTIVE
During the fourth and fifth years, Freud suggested that during this stage, the primary focus of the libido is on the genitals. At this age, children also begin to discover the differences between males and females.
PHALLIC
Boys having sexual feelings towards their mother and hostile feelings to their father.
OEDIPAL COMPLEX
Girls having sexual feelings towards their father and hostile feelings to their mother.
ELECTRA COMPLEX
Freud postulated a ____
stage, from the sixth year to puberty,
during which sexual feelings are inactive.
LATENCY
STAGE 5:
DEFENSE MECHANISM
With the advent of puberty, sexual tension increases dramatically. The reproductive organs have matured, and both sexes are now capable of procreation. Previously, the aims of the sexual instincts have been predominantly autoerotic, but now the goal is to mate with an appropriate sex object.
GENITAL
share two features: They occur on an unconscious level so that we are not aware of what we are doing, and they deny or distort reality so as to make it less threatening.
DEFENSE MECHANISM
Character Types of Defense Mechanism
REPRESSION
DENIAL
PROJECTION
REACTION FORMATION
REGRESSION
RATIONALIZATION
DISPLACEMENT
SUBLIMATION
The most basic defense mechanism. Whenever the ego is threatened by undesirable id impulses, it protects itself by repressing those impulses; that is, it forces threatening feelings into the unconscious. In many cases the __________ is then perpetuated for a lifetime.
REGRESSION
refers to a person’s refusal to perceive an unpleasant event in external reality. In adults, the use of denial may be normal during times of extreme stress.
DENIAL
When a person protects the ego by attributing his or her own undesirable characteristics to others, we might infer that ____ has taken place.
PROJECTION
The conversion of an undesirable impulse into its opposite is known as _______________
________behavior can be identified by its exaggerated character and by its obsessive and compulsive form
REACTION FORMATION
there is a movement from mature behavior to immature behavior. That is, when the ego is threatened, the person may revert to an earlier, more infantile form of behavior as a means of coping with the stress.
REGRESSION
is the justification of behavior through the use of plausible, but inaccurate, excuses.
RATIONALIZATION
refers to the unconscious attempt to obtain gratification for id impulses by shifting them to substitute objects if objects that would directly satisfy the impulses are not available
DISPLACEMENT
is a form of
_____________in which the unacceptable id impulses themselves are transformed, rather than the object at which they aim. The unacceptable impulses are _____________ by ones that are socially acceptable.
SUBLIMATION
