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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- Conscious mind
- Preconscious mind
- 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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- Conscious Perception
- 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
Id
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Only region with contact with reality and the external world
Ego
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Partly conscious, partly preconscious, partly unconscious
Ego
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Reality Principle
Ego
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Guided by Moralistic and Idealistic Principles
Superego
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Freud learned hypnotic techniques from
Jean-Martin Charcot
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________ was considered as Freud's successor.
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.
Wilhelm Fliess
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2 subsystems of the Superego
1. Conscience
2. Ego-ideal
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People are motivated to seek pleasure and to reduce tensions and anxiety.
Dynamics of Personality
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The Geman word that refers to drive or stimulus within the person.
Trieb
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Originates from the Id but comes under the control of the ego.
Drive
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The DRIVE is grouped into 2
1. Sex or Eros (psychic energy libido)
2. Aggression or Thanatos. (no name for psychic energy)
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amount of force
IMPETUS
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region of the body of excitation or tension
SOURCE
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seeks pleasure by removing that
excitation or reducing the tension
AIM
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the person or thing that serves as the
means through which the aim is satisfied.
OBJECT
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The entire body is invested in libido.
Specific boy areas concerned with
libido is called ______.
EROGENEOUS ZONES
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infants are primarily self-centered with their libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego.
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.
SECONDARY NARCISSISM
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Develops when people invest their
libido on an object or person other than themselves.
LOVE
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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.
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.
MASOCHISM
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The aim of sexual drive is pleasure or
reduction of sexual tension.
Sex
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In the book ______, Freud introduced the concept of Aggression.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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The ultimate inorganic condition is ______.
DEATH
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The final aim of the aggressive drive is
________.
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.
Aggression
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Affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger.
Anxiety
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3 kinds of Anxiety
1. Neurotic
2. Moral
3. Realistic
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resulted from the ego’s dependence
on the Id. Apprehension about an unknown danger
Neurotic
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resulted from the ego’s dependence to
the superego
Moral
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resulted from the ego’s dependence
on the outer world. This is closely related to fear.
Realistic
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Extreme use of defense
mechanism may lead to:
compulsive, repetitive and
neurotic behavior
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Freud’s principal defense mechanisms
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.
repression
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Unconsciously adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form.
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.
Displacement
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Permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier more primitive stage of development.
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.
Regression
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Placing an unwanted impulse onto an external object
Projection
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People incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego.
Introjection
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Substituting a cultural or social aim expressed most obviously in creative cultural accomplishments such as art, music, and literature.
Sublimation
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TRUE or FALSE
The infantile stage is divided into three substages -- oral, anal and phallic.
TRUE
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TRUE or FALSE
Freud devoted more attention to oral stage of development.
FALSE
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TRUE or FALSE
The most basic of all defense mechanisms is regression.
FALSE
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refers to the strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop
toward their analyst during treatment.
TRANSFERENCE
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permits patients to relive childhood experiences within the non-threatening climate of the analytic treatment.
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.
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.
RESISTANCE
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occurs when a therapist transfers emotions to a person in therapy, is often a reaction to transference
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
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Freud’s Therapeutic Technique
* Extracting repressed childhood memories
* When he abandoned his seduction theory
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a therapeutic technique used in psychoanalytic therapy
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.
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).
Dream Analysis
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found in people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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.
CONDENSATION
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means that the dream image is replaced by some other idea only remotely related to it.
DISPLACEMENT
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Feeling neither joy nor sorrow
INHIBITION OF AFFECT
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Dream Analysis Process:
1. CONDENSATION
2. DISPLACEMENT
3. INHIBITION OF AFFECT
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Freud’s Dream Interpretation
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.
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.
SYMBOLS
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belongs to the preconscious
Anxiety
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belongs to the unconscious
Wish
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German for faulty functions
Fehlleistung
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translated by James Strachey as unconscious slips
Parapraxes
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These are serious mental acts, have sense and arise from the concurrent
actions.
Freudian Slip
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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)
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.
Pleasure and the Id: Inhibition and the Ego
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Damage to the right hemisphere of the brain shows defense mechanisms and wishful thinking.
Repression, Inhibition and Defense Mechanisms
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_____ and _____ may be key brain structures responsible for dreams including the conversion of latent content into manifest content.
Basal ganglia and amygdala
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Critique on Freud
* 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
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.
Determinism
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we came into the world in a basic state of conflict.
Pessimism
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present behavior is shaped by the past. People are caught between eros and Thanatos
Causality
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theory relies heavily on the unconscious
Unconscious
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As a physician, Freud believed that
infantile fantasies and anxiety if biologically rooted.
Biological Influence
