Lesson 3. SIGMUND FREUD’S(1856-1939) PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Flashcards
Freud born on ______ in Freiberg, Moravia(now Pribor, Czech Republic).
May 6, 1856
Freud died in London on ______
September 23, 1939.
Division of the human personality(topographic model)
- Preconscious
- Conscious
- Unconcious
contains the thoughts you are currently aware of.
Conscious
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 …
Preconscious
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.
Unconcious
Freud’s Structural Model
Id(at birth)
Ego(infancy)
Superego(five years old)
this is the selfish part of you, concerned only with satisfying your
personal desires.
Id(at birth)
are based on the reality principle, which is to satisfy a wish or desire only if there is a socially acceptable outler available.
Ego(infancy)
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
Superego(five years old)
are inborn psychological representaiton of an inner somatic source of excitation.
Instincts
the life or sexual instinct. Energy is directed to person’s
survival, reproduction and racial propagation.
Eros(libido)
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.
Thanatos
Functions of the instinct (4)
- Regressive
- Conservative
- Repetition compulsion
- Displaceable
it returns the person to a prior state, one that existed
before the instinct appeared
Regressive
its aim is to conserve the equilibrium of the organism
by abolishing disturbing excitations.
Conservative
it is compelled to repeat over and over again
the inevitable cycle from excitatin to quiescence.
Repetition compulsion
its object can be substituted for one another.
Displaceable
a painful emotional experience representing a threat or danger to the person.
Anxiety
unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible
danger. Closely related to fear.
Realistic anxiety
an apprehension about an unknown danger
Neurotic anxiety
stems from the conflict between the ego and superego
Moral anxiety
techniques to deal with unwanted thoughts and desires.
Defense mechanisms
is an active effort by the ego to push threatening material out of consciousness or to keep such material from ever reaching the consciousness.
Repression
the ego channels threatening unconscious impulses into socially acceptable action.
Sublimation
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.
Displacement
simply refuse to accept that certain facts exist. People insist that
something is not true despite all evidence to the contrary.
Denial
people hide from a threatening unconscious idea or
urge by acting in a manner opposite to the unconscious desire
Reaction formation
one way the ego handles threatening material is to
remove the emotional content from the thought before allowing it into awareness.
Intellectualization
people attribute unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else. They sometimes attribute an unconscious impulse to other people instead of to themselves.
Projection
