Lesson 3. SIGMUND FREUD’S(1856-1939) PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

Question 1

Freud born on ______ in Freiberg, Moravia(now Pribor, Czech Republic).

Answer 1

May 6, 1856

Question 2

Freud died in London on ______

Answer 2

September 23, 1939.

Question 3

Division of the human personality(topographic model)

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1. Preconscious
2. Conscious
3. Unconcious

Question 4

contains the thoughts you are currently aware of.

Answer 4

Conscious

Question 5

You could bring an uncountable number of thoughts into consciousness fairly easily if you wanted to. This large body of retrievable
information makes up the …

Answer 5

Preconscious

Question 6

this is the material to which you have no immediate access. represent wishes, desires, or thoughts that because of their disturbing or threatening content, we automatically repress and cannot
voluntarily access.

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Unconcious

Question 7

Freud’s Structural Model

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Id(at birth)
Ego(infancy)
Superego(five years old)

Question 8

this is the selfish part of you, concerned only with satisfying your
personal desires.

Answer 8

Id(at birth)

Question 9

are based on the reality principle, which is to satisfy a wish or desire only if there is a socially acceptable outler available.

Answer 9

Ego(infancy)

Question 10

represents society’s and parents’ values and standards. Its goal is to apply the moral values and standards of one’s parents or caregivers and society in satisfying one’s wishes

Answer 10

Superego(five years old)

Question 11

are inborn psychological representaiton of an inner somatic source of excitation.

Answer 11

Instincts

Question 12

the life or sexual instinct. Energy is directed to person’s

survival, reproduction and racial propagation.

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Eros(libido)

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the death or aggressive instinct. Energy is directed to the aggressive drives and is turned away from oneself and directed towards others as acts of aggression.

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Thanatos

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Functions of the instinct (4)

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1. Regressive
2. Conservative
3. Repetition compulsion
4. Displaceable

Question 15

it returns the person to a prior state, one that existed

before the instinct appeared

Answer 15

Regressive

Question 16

its aim is to conserve the equilibrium of the organism

by abolishing disturbing excitations.

Answer 16

Conservative

Question 17

it is compelled to repeat over and over again

the inevitable cycle from excitatin to quiescence.

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Repetition compulsion

Question 18

its object can be substituted for one another.

Answer 18

Displaceable

Question 19

a painful emotional experience representing a threat or danger to the person.

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Anxiety

Question 20

unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible

danger. Closely related to fear.

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Realistic anxiety

Question 21

an apprehension about an unknown danger

Answer 21

Neurotic anxiety

Question 22

stems from the conflict between the ego and superego

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Moral anxiety

Question 23

techniques to deal with unwanted thoughts and desires.

Answer 23

Defense mechanisms

Question 24

is an active effort by the ego to push threatening material out of consciousness or to keep such material from ever reaching the consciousness.

Answer 24

Repression

Question 25

the ego channels threatening unconscious impulses into socially acceptable action.

Answer 25

Sublimation

Question 26

involves channeling impulses to non-threatening objects.

The expression of an unwanted feeling or thought is redirected from a more threatening, powerful person to a weaker one.

Answer 26

Displacement

Question 27

simply refuse to accept that certain facts exist. People insist that
something is not true despite all evidence to the contrary.

Answer 27

Denial

Question 28

people hide from a threatening unconscious idea or

urge by acting in a manner opposite to the unconscious desire

Answer 28

Reaction formation

Question 29

one way the ego handles threatening material is to

remove the emotional content from the thought before allowing it into awareness.

Answer 29

Intellectualization

Question 30

people attribute unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else. They sometimes attribute an unconscious impulse to other people instead of to themselves.

Answer 30

Projection