Freud Psychoynamic theory Flashcards
What is the conscious mind?
- The conscious mind is that part of the mind we are aware of.
What is the pre-conscious mind?
- The pre-conscious mind is the part of the mind we are occasionally aware of.
What is the unconscious mind?
The unconscious mind is the rest of the psyche that we are totally unaware of
What technique did Freud create?
Freud created a technique called psychoanalysis
What is psychoanalysis?
- psychoanalysis - to help his patients understand their unconscious minds with the help of a trained psychoanalyst.
What did Freud believe about psychoanalysis?
He believed that psychoanalysis could enable people to overcome problems rooted in the unconscious.
What are the three parts of pscyhe?
- The id
- The ego
- The supergo
What is the id?
- Most basic part
- Developed first in babies
- It consists of urges and desires.
- The id isn’t rational or reflective
- It is made up entirely of feelings.
- The id exists entirely in the unconscious mind.
What is the ego?
- second part of the psyche
- develops in toddlers
- thinking, decision-making part of the mind
- exists within the conscious mind
- based on “the reality principle” because it understands the outside world, the consequences of actions and the passage of time.
What is deferred gratification?
- The ego has a powerful bargaining chip for dealing with the id.
- Deferred gratification involves putting off pleasure until later, or enjoying a smaller pleasure in the short term for the sake of a larger pleasure later on.
What is the supergo?
- final part of the psyche to develop is the super-ego
- forms between the ages of 4 and 6
- super-ego straddles the conscious and the unconscious mind
- we’re partly aware of it, partly not
- based on “the morality principle” and acts as “the voice of conscience”.
- It tells the ego whether its thoughts are morally acceptable or not.
What is Repression?
- aggressive urges that are repressed drain the libido.
- Eventually, there is not enough energy to keep the aggression repressed and it explodes out
What is Denial?
- the conscious mind refuses to admit what it is doing
What is Projection?
- the super-ego’s hostility is directed towards other people who seem to be acting on those same feelings; this often involves “blaming the victim” for provoking the aggression
What is Displacement?
the id’s urges are acted upon, but they are directed at a different target
- often happens with aggression, which can be targeted at someone or something else
What is Sublimation?
- the id’s urges are acted upon, but are transformed into something socially acceptable
What is avatistic behaviour?
- the behaviour of our ancestors.
- In other words, it’s an animal-type behaviour we no longer need but we’re stuck with.
What is cathartic behaviour?
- Releasing strong emotion in a healthy way
What is oedpius complex?
- A boy around age five begins to develop an intense sexual desire for his opposite sex parent- his mother.
- A boy around age five begins to develop an intense sexual desire for his opposite sex parent- his mother.
- assuming that by pursuing his mother’s affection his father will want to hurt him and castrate him
- To resolve this the boy internalises his father after realising his feelings are essentially inappropriate. In doing so, he takes on his father’s superego and as such, his moral values.
How would the supergo be weak if the oedipus complex is unresolved?
- If the father is over strict then the superego may be so strong that the urges of the id are tightly controlled and thwarted in which case serious problems can arise
What is the electra complex?
- The problems girls experience are mirrored to an extent, but since girls do not have a penis they are unable to develop a conscience through fear of castration in the same way boys do.
- The superegos of females are, therefore, weaker than those of males and they are morally inferior.
How does eros and Thantos explain aggression?
- Aggression can be considered a drive and it links to the death instinct.
- The energy of thanatos will often be redirected away from the person and towards others, resulting in aggression.
How can catharsis been seen as?
- catharsis is an emotional release of unconscious conflicts
- Catharsis can be seen as a way of venting aggression
