Freud Theories Flashcards
The Oedipus Complex
A man’s sexual desire for his mother and murderous jealousy of his father
Jung’s thoughts on girls’ reaction re sexuality and emergence from puberty…
The Electra Complex
Electra deeply opposed to her mother as she believes she has murdered her father and therefore plots with her brother to murder her mother - Clytaemestra
Ego, Id and super ego
The ego the mind’s outer surface, has conscious thoughts but also (without our conscious mind knowing) keeps threatening unconscious thoughts and impulses in check. It is the social self and exits in the realm of reality.
The core of the psyche is the Id, from the Latin ’it’ it is the dark, unconscious, libidinous centre of interior experience, the locus of impulses and passions, the ‘wild horse’ ridden and checked by the ego. It can be the cause of guilt its actions monitored and approved (most of the time) by the ego.
The ‘super ego’ or ‘ego ideal’. - That which the self wishes to become, the seat of morality, duty and faith.
The superego is in the end, the part of the self that is self-critical, that measures the distance between reality and the ideal and that feeds off the energy of the Id in order to channel the ego towards higher goals I.e., sublimation (the achievements of human civilisation, art and the great ideas).
