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M1 Week 3: Freud Flashcards

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Twin cornerstone

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SEX and AGGRESSION

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Breuer taught Freud about ______ (the process of removing hysterical symptoms through “talking them out”).

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CATHARSIS

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Freud’s personal friend and close professional associate while he is still a medical student.

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JOSEF BREUER

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While doing catharsis, Freud discovered the ______ (which soon replaced hypnosis as his principal therapeutic
technique).

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FREE ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE

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He studied in Paris with the famous French neurologist ______.

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JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT

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4 months of training where he learned ______ for treating _____ (a disorder characterized by paralysis or the improper
functioning of certain parts of the body).

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HYPNOTIC TECHNIQUE ; HYSTERIA

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Hysteria was also known as __________.

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WANDERING WOMB

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He learned about MALE HYSTERIA from _______.

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Charcot

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Breuer & Freud, 1895/1955 published _____.

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Studies of Hysteria

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Freud’s 3 Levels of Mind

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  1. Conscious mind
  2. Preconscious mind
  3. Unconscious mind
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Contains all drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness but motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions.

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Unconscious

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A portion of our unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations.

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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Similar to Carl Jung’s COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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Contains all elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some
difficulty.

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Preconscious

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SOURCES OF PRECONSICOUS

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  1. Conscious Perception
  2. Unconscious Perception
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What a person perceives is conscious for only a transitory period

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Conscious Perception

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Disguised unconscious thoughts come to consciousness through dreams, slip of the tongue, and defense mechanisms.

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Unconscious Perception

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Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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Conscious

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perceived through the sense organs enter into consciousness if it is not too threatening.

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PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUS

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both preconscious and unconscious

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Superego

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completely unconscious

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Id

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partly conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

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Ego

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Contains our basic drives (primary motivates)

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Id

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Serves the PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.

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Id

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No morality and cannot distinguish good from evil. AMORAL

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Id

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Only region with contact with reality and the external world

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Ego

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Partly conscious, partly preconscious, partly unconscious

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Ego

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Reality Principle

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Ego

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Guided by Moralistic and Idealistic Principles

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Superego

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Freud learned hypnotic techniques from

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Jean-Martin Charcot

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________ was considered as Freud’s successor.

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Carl Jung

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Much of Freud’s self-analysis was revealed to his friend ______ which resulted in his work on Interpretation of Dreams.

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Wilhelm Fliess

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2 subsystems of the Superego

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  1. Conscience
  2. Ego-ideal
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People are motivated to seek pleasure and to reduce tensions and anxiety.

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Dynamics of Personality

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The Geman word that refers to drive or stimulus within the person.

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Trieb

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Originates from the Id but comes under the control of the ego.

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Drive

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The DRIVE is grouped into 2

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  1. Sex or Eros (psychic energy libido)
  2. Aggression or Thanatos. (no name for psychic energy)
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amount of force

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IMPETUS

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region of the body of excitation or tension

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SOURCE

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seeks pleasure by removing that
excitation or reducing the tension

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AIM

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the person or thing that serves as the
means through which the aim is satisfied.

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OBJECT

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The entire body is invested in libido.
Specific boy areas concerned with
libido is called ______.

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EROGENEOUS ZONES

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infants are primarily self-centered with their libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego.

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PRIMARY NARCISSISM

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object libido. Preoccupation with personal appearance and other self-interests. A moderate degree of self-love is common to nearly everyone but this is not universal.

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SECONDARY NARCISSISM

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Develops when people invest their
libido on an object or person other than themselves.

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LOVE

46
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the common need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person. Needs others to satisfy their need and are more dependent.

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SADISM

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a common need when sexual pleasure from suffering pain and humiliation inflicted either by themselves or by others. They do not depend on another person for the satisfaction of eros.

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MASOCHISM

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The aim of sexual drive is pleasure or
reduction of sexual tension.

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Sex

49
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In the book ______, Freud introduced the concept of Aggression.

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

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The ultimate inorganic condition is ______.

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DEATH

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The final aim of the aggressive drive is
________.

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SELF-DESTRUCTION

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______ is flexible and can take many forms such as teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor, and the
enjoyment of other people’s suffering.

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Aggression

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Affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger.

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Anxiety

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3 kinds of Anxiety

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  1. Neurotic
  2. Moral
  3. Realistic
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resulted from the ego’s dependence
on the Id. Apprehension about an unknown danger

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Neurotic

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resulted from the ego’s dependence to
the superego

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Moral

57
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resulted from the ego’s dependence
on the outer world. This is closely related to fear.

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Realistic

58
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Extreme use of defense
mechanism may lead to:

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compulsive, repetitive and
neurotic behavior

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Freud’s principal defense mechanisms

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  1. repression
  2. reaction formation
  3. displacement
  4. fixation
  5. regression
  6. projection
  7. introjection
  8. sublimation
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Represses the impulses, it forces threatening feelings into the unconscious.

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repression

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Unconsciously adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form.

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reaction formation

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Redirecting unacceptable urges onto a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised or concealed.

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Displacement

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Permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier more primitive stage of development.

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Fixation

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Returning to earlier, safer, more secure patterns of behavior and investing their libido into more primitive and familiar objects. This behavior can be rigid and infantile.

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Regression

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Placing an unwanted impulse onto an external object

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Projection

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People incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego.

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Introjection

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Substituting a cultural or social aim expressed most obviously in creative cultural accomplishments such as art, music, and literature.

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Sublimation

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TRUE or FALSE
The infantile stage is divided into three substages – oral, anal and phallic.

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TRUE

69
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TRUE or FALSE
Freud devoted more attention to oral stage of development.

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FALSE

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TRUE or FALSE
The most basic of all defense mechanisms is regression.

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FALSE

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refers to the strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop
toward their analyst during treatment.

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TRANSFERENCE

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permits patients to relive childhood experiences within the non-threatening climate of the analytic treatment.

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Positive transference

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in the form of hostility must be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome any resistance to treatment.

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Negative transference

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refers to a variety of unconscious responses used by patients to block their progress in therapy, which can be a positive sign because it indicates that therapy has advanced beyond superficial material.

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RESISTANCE

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occurs when a therapist transfers emotions to a person in therapy, is often a reaction to transference

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COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

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Freud’s Therapeutic Technique

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  • Extracting repressed childhood memories
  • When he abandoned his seduction theory
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a therapeutic technique used in psychoanalytic therapy

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Free association

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The goal is to identify genuine thoughts and feelings about life situations that might be problematic, yet not be self-evident.

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Free association

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to transform the manifest content (the dreamer gives surface meaning or the conscious description) of dreams to more importantly latent content (refers to its unconscious material).

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Dream Analysis

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found in people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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REPETITION COMPULSION

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refers that manifest dream content is not as extensive as the latent level. Unconscious material has been condensed before appearing on the manifest level.

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CONDENSATION

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means that the dream image is replaced by some other idea only remotely related to it.

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DISPLACEMENT

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Feeling neither joy nor sorrow

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INHIBITION OF AFFECT

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Dream Analysis Process:

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  1. CONDENSATION
  2. DISPLACEMENT
  3. INHIBITION OF AFFECT
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Freud’s Dream Interpretation

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  1. ASSOCIATION
  2. SYMBOLS
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Ask patients to relate their dreams and all their associations to it, no matter how unrelated or illogical these
associations seemed.

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ASSOCIATION

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If the dreamer was unable to relate association material, Freud used a second method, dream symbols to discover the unconscious elements underlying the manifest content.

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SYMBOLS

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belongs to the preconscious

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Anxiety

89
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belongs to the unconscious

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Wish

90
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German for faulty functions

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Fehlleistung

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translated by James Strachey as unconscious slips

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Parapraxes

92
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These are serious mental acts, have sense and arise from the concurrent
actions.

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Freudian Slip

93
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Ability to reflect on one’s knowledge and self is more the function of the prefrontal cortex (the dorsal frontal cortex)

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Unconscious Mental Processing

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Pleasure-seeking drives have their neurological origins in two brain structures, the brain stem and the
limbic system.

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Pleasure and the Id: Inhibition and the Ego

95
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Damage to the right hemisphere of the brain shows defense mechanisms and wishful thinking.

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Repression, Inhibition and Defense Mechanisms

96
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_____ and _____ may be key brain structures responsible for dreams including the conversion of latent content into manifest content.

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Basal ganglia and amygdala

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Critique on Freud

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  • He did not understand women
  • Freud wanted to separate philosophy from psychoanalysis and did not claim that it is a natural science
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Freud’s Concepts of Humanity

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  1. Determinism
  2. Pessimism
  3. Causality
  4. Unconscious
  5. Biological Influence
  6. Equal in uniqueness and similarities
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behavior is determined by past events and childhood experiences.

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Determinism

100
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we came into the world in a basic state of conflict.

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Pessimism

101
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present behavior is shaped by the past. People are caught between eros and Thanatos

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Causality

102
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theory relies heavily on the unconscious

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Unconscious

103
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As a physician, Freud believed that
infantile fantasies and anxiety if biologically rooted.

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Biological Influence

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