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Module 2: Psychoanalytic Theory Flashcards

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What is the most famous personality theory?

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Psychoanalysis

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Who is the main proponent of psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud

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How many years was psychoanalysis subject to revision?

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Last fifty years of Freud’s life

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What can psychoanalysis not be subjected to?

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Eclecticism

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What is the method of deriving ideas from broad and diverse range of sources?

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Eclecticism

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What is eclecticism?

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It is the method of deriving ideas from broad and diverse range of sources.

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What makes the psychoanalytic theory interesting?

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Sex and aggression, going far beyond its origins through passionate followers, and Freud’s persuasive writing

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What did Freud’s persuasive writing enable him to do?

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It enabled him to present theories in a stimulating and exciting manner.

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What was the human personality based on in the psychoanalytic theory?

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It was largely based on Freud’s experiences with patients,

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What did Freud do to those who departed from his way of research?

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He ostracized them.

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What did Freud rely on to create the psychoanalytic theory?

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He relied on deductive reasoning.

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What were Freud’s observations made to be?

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They were made to be subjective on a relatively small number of participants.

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What did Freud not do to make his research?

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He did not quantify his data or make observations under controlled conditions.

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What did Freud do to make his research?

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He utilized the case study approach almost exclusively and formulated hypotheses after the facts of the case were known.

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What are the two levels of mental life that is discussed in most textbooks?

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Unconscious and conscious

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What are the two different levels of the unconscious for Freud?

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The unconscious proper and preconscious

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What level of mental life contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness?

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The unconscious

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What does the unconscious contain?

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All the drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness.

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What does the unconscious constantly strive to be?

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The conscious

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What does the unconscious motivate in us?

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It motivates most of our words, feelings, and actions.

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When can the unconscious only enter the consciousness?

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It can only enter the consciousness when it has been disguised, distorted, or filtered to be more acceptable as to not trigger anxiety.

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What are the early childhood memories that create high levels of anxiety?

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Repression

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What refers to the inherited unconscious images from the experiences of our early ancestors?

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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What is repression?

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It is the early childhood memories that create high levels of anxiety.

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What is phylogenetic endowment?

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It refers to the inherited unconscious images from the experiences of our early ancestors.

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What are the two sources of unconscious processes?

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Repression and phylogenetic endowment

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What contains elements that are not conscious but can become conscious – either readily or with some degree of difficulty?

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The preconscious

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What is the preconscious?

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It is the storehouse of memories, perceptions, and thoughts that we are not consciously aware of, but can become conscious – either readily or with some degree of difficulty.

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What can be easily summoned into the consciousness?

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The elements stored in the preconscious.

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What serves as the storehouse of memories, perceptions, and thoughts which we are not consciously aware of?

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The preconscious.

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What are the sources of preconscious processes?

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Conscious perception and unconscious

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What is the preconscious process wherein individuals are only aware of the elements that they perceive for a short period of time?

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Conscious perception

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What is the preconscious process wherein unconscious elements can enter the preconscious once the censor has been bypassed?

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Unconscious

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What is conscious perception?

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It is the preconscious process wherein individuals are only aware of the elements that they perceive for a short period of time.

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What is the unconscious preconscious process?

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It is wherein unconscious elements can enter the preconscious once the censor has been bypassed.

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What is the conscious?

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It is the only level of mental life that is available to us and which plays a relatively minor role in psychoanalytic theory.

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What are the sources of conscious elements?

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Perceptual conscious system and within the mental structure.

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What is the only level of mental life that is available to us?

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The conscious

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What plays a relatively minor role in the pscyhoanalytic theory?

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The conscious

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What is the conscious element that we perceive through our sense organs and enters the consciousness provided that it is not threatening?

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Perceptual conscious system

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What is the conscious element wherein non-threatening ideas from the preconscious and menacing but well disguised images from the unconscious enter?

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Within the mental structure.

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What is the unconscious process which covers the fear of death and same sex relations?

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Phylogenetic endowment

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What is the conscious element that covers defensive behaviors and dream elements?

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Within the mental structure

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What is the level of mental life which covers the use of defense mechanisms?

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The unconscious

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45
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What is the large entrance hall in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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The unconscious

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Why is the unconscious a large entrance hall in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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It is because many diverse, energetic, and disreputable people are usually milling about at the large entrance hall, crowding one another and striving to escape to a smaller adjoining reception room (the preconscious).

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What is the representation of the unconscious images in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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People in the entrance hall

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Who protects the threshold in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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Watchful guards

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What is the representation of the preconscious in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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Small reception room

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What is the representation of the preconscious ideas in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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Inhabitants of the small reception area

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What is the representation of the conscious mind in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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An important guest.

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What is the representation of the primary sensor in the analogy of the entrance hall?

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Doorkeeper

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What are the three levels of mental life?

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The ego, superego, and the ID

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What are the levels of mental life?

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The only model of the mind Freud has presented.

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What is the only conflict in the levels of mental life concept?

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The only conflict was between the unconscious and conscious forces.

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What was the only model of the mind which Freud had presented?

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The levels of mental life.

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What are the components of the ego?

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The unconscious, preconscious, and conscious components.

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What are the components of the superego?

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The preconscious and unconscious components.

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What are the components of the ID?

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The unconscious components completely.

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What level of mental life has the unconscious, preconscious, and conscious components?

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The ego.

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What level of mental life has the preconscious and unconscious components?

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The superego.

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What level of mental life has the unconscious components only?

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The ID.

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What is the level of mental life that is “not-yet-owned component of the personality” or “the it”?

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The ID.

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What is the secondary-process thought?

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It refers to the mature thought processes needed to deal rationally with the external world and which functions through to the ego.

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What is the primitive component of the mind?

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The ID

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What are the characteristics of the ID?

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No awareness of reality, illogical and entertains irrational ideas, amoral (no morality), operates on pleasure principle, houses the basic drives, operates through the primary-process thought, needs secondary-process thought

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What is the primary-process thought?

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It is a thought process that is characterized by a child-like thinking wherein the ID blindly seeks satisfaction of the pleasure principle.

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What is the thought process that is characterized by a child-like thinking wherein the ID blindly seeks satisfaction of the pleasure principle?

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The primary-process thought

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What is the personification of the ID?

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A newborn infant.

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Why is the ID’s personification that of a newborn infant?

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It is because it seeks gratification of needs without the regard of the possible (ego) or what is proper (superego).

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What is the level of mental life that is called “the I” or the rational master of the personality?

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The ego.

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What is the only region of the mind in contact with reality?

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The ego.

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73
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What is the ego?

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It is the only region of the mind in contact with reality.

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What is the reality principle?

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It is the functions of the ego that provide appropriate constraints on the expression of the ID.

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The ego is never independent of what?

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The ID.

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76
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The ego is responsive to what?

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The ID’s demands.

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77
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What is the decision-making component of personality?

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The ego.

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What is the functions of the ego that provides appropriate constraints on the expression of the ID?

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The reality principle.

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What does the ego serve?

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The ID, reality, and the superego.

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What does the ego operate on?

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It operates on the moralistic and idealistic principles.

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81
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What is the internalization of the ego?

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Parental and societal values and standards.

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What is the level of mental life that is the “over-I” or the moral aspect of personality?

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The superego.

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What is the purpose of the superego?

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It is to completely inhibit the pleasure seeking demands of the ID through repression.

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What are the two subsystems of the superego?

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The conscience and ego ideal.

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What is the conscience as a subsystem of the superego?

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A product of experiences with punishments for improper behavior.

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What does the conscience as a subsystem of the superego tell us to do?

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It tells us what we should not do.

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What is the guilt?

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It is a function of the conscious.

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When does the conscious as a subsystem of the superego arise?

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It arises when the ego acts contrary to the moral demands of the superego.

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What is the ego ideal?

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It is a result from experiences of reward.

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What does the ego ideal tell us to do?

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It tells us what we should do.

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91
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What is the main function of the conscience?

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Guilt.

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92
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What is the main function of the ego ideal?

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Inferiority

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What is inferiority?

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It is a function of the ego-ideal.

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When does the ego ideal arise?

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It rises when the ego cannot satisfy the superego’s demand for perfection.

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What will happen if the ego does not check the ID?

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People may be rapists, serial killers, pathological liars, or may exhibit suicidal tendencies.

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What is the constant motivational force behind people’s actions?

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Drives

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97
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What is the German word for drives?

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Trieb

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98
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What is Trieb?

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The German word for drives.

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Why do the internal drives differ from external ones?

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It is because they cannot be avoided through flight

100
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What is the amount of force that the drive exerts?

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Impetus

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What is the region of the body that is in a state of excitement or tension?

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Source

102
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What is the element that seeks pleasure or reduces tension?

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Aim

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What is the person or object serving as the means to satisfaction?

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Object

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What is the basic drive characterized by?

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An impetus, source, aim, and object.

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What are the two major drives?

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Sex or eros (life instincts) and aggression, destruction or thanatos (death instinct)

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What is the major drive that is responsible for ensuring survival of the individual and the species?

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Sex or eros (life instincts).

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What is the unconscious drive toward decay, destruction, and aggression?

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Aggression, destruction or thanatos (death instinct)

108
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What is the component of the sex or eros (life instincts) drive?

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Libido

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What is the component of the aggression, destruction or thanatos (death instinct) drive?

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Aggressive drive

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What is the psychic energy that characterizes the sex drive?

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Libido

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What is the aim of the libido?

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It is to give pleasure to the person and is not only limited to the genital satisfaction.

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What are the erogenous zones?

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It is the other parts of the body that are capable of producing sexual pleasure.

113
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Where is the pleasurable activity traceable to?

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The sexual drive.

114
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What are the other parts of the body that are capable of producing sexual pleasure?

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The erogenous zones.

115
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What is narcissism?

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It is the act of being self-centered.

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Where is the libido mostly focused on when the person is narcissistic?

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The libido is focused mainly on their own ego.

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What is the redirection of the libido back to one’s ego during adolescence?

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It is the secondary narcissism.

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What is the universal condition during infancy wherein the libido is primarily invested to one’s egoistic needs?

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It is the primary narcissism.

119
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What is primary narcissism?

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It is the universal condition during infancy wherein the libido is primarily invested to one’s egoistic needs.

120
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What is secondary narcissism?

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It is the redirection of the libido back to one’s ego during adolescence.

121
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What kind of narcissism does the person have when the person does not give consideration to others?

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Primary narcissism.

122
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What kind of narcissism does the person have when the person becomes preoccupied with personal appearance?

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Secondary narcissism.

123
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What develops when individuals invest their libido on an object or person other than themselves?

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Love

124
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What is the need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person?

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Sadism

125
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What is the need to experience suffering and humiliation inflicted by either themselves or by others to experience sexual pleasure?

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Masochism

126
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What is the aim of the aggressive drive?

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It is to return the organism to an inorganic state – self-destruction or death.

127
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What are the different forms that the aggressive drive may take in?

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Teasing, gossip, sarcasm, humiliation, humor, and enjoyment in people’s suffering

128
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True or false. The aggressive tendency is present in everyone.

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True.

129
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What kind drive does war, religious persecution, and atrocity cover?

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The aggressive drive.

130
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What does the aggressive drive explain?

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It explains the need for barriers people erected to check aggression.

131
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What is anxiety?

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It is the fundamental component to the development of all neurotic and psychotic behavior.

132
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What is the first experience of anxiety and the root of all trauma?

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Birth trauma.

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Where does the birth trauma come from?

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It comes from being secured, safe, and comfortable inside the womb to being bombarded with various stimuli outside the womb.

134
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What are the types of anxiety?

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Neurotic, moral, and realistic anxiety.

135
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What anxiety is the result of the ego’s dependence towards the ID?

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Neurotic anxiety

136
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What anxiety is the result of the ego’s dependence to the superego?

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Moral anxiety

137
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What anxiety is the unconscious fear of being punished for impulsively displaying ID-dominated behavior?

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Neurotic anxiety

138
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What anxiety refers to the fear of one’s conscience?

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Moral anxiety

139
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What anxiety is the result of one’s expression of an instinctual impulse contrary to one’s moral code?

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Moral anxiety

140
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What is the purpose of anxiety?

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To be an ego-preserving and self-regulating mechanism as it allows the ego to be alert for signs of threat and danger.

141
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What are the strategies of the ego that is used to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by conflicts of everyday life?

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Defense mechanisms.

142
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True or false. Defense mechanisms are usually used in one form.

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False

143
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What will happen if defense mechanisms are used constantly?

A

It may lead to neurotic, compulsive, and repetitive behavior.

144
Q

What are the characteristics of defense mechanisms?

A

They are denials or distortions of reality and they operate unconsciously.

145
Q

What are the types of defense mechanisms?

A

Repression, denial, reaction formation, projection, regression, rationalization, displacement, and sublimation

146
Q

How many types of defense mechanism are there?

A

Eight.

147
Q

What is the unconscious denial of the existence of something that causes anxiety?

A

Repression

148
Q

What will happen to ego when it is threatened by undesirable ID impulses?

A

It will force these threatening feels into the unconscious.

149
Q

What involves denying the existence of a threat or traumatic event?

A

Denial.

150
Q

What is the expression of an ID impulse that is the opposite of the one that is truly driving the person?

A

Reaction formation.

151
Q

What involves attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else?

A

Projection

152
Q

What involves retreating to childish behaviors?

A

Regression

153
Q

What involves shifting ID impulses from a threatening object that is unavailable to them to one that is available to them?

A

Displacement

154
Q

What involves altering or displacing ID impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable behaviors?

A

Sublimation

155
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Bill witnesses a crime, but can no longer remember the criminal’s face or the order of events that had happened.

A

Repression

156
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Clara is in denial that her partner is abusive.

A

Denial

157
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Gertrude still keeps her late mother’s belongings at their original place.

A

Denial

158
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Kevin is an avid crusader against pornographic materials even if he, himself, is aroused by watching porn.

A

Reaction formation

159
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Sophia accuses her friend for being a flirt when she is teased by her peers for being a flirt.

A

Projection

160
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Ellie likes to retreat to her bedroom to hug her teddy bear which makes her feel safe when she doesn’t feel OK.

A

Regression

161
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Even though Dylan is lazy at doing his job anyway, he still blames to company to be not supportive and too strict.

A

Rationalization

162
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Matthew, a buff bully who is neglected by his parents, channels his inner frustrations on Justine, a fellow student who is shorter and scrawny.

A

Displacement

163
Q

Identify what defense mechanism is being used here: Julia decides to become a subject of a nude painting.

A

Sublimation

164
Q

When is adult neurosis formed?

A

Formed in the early years of life.

165
Q

What is neurosis?

A

Mild personality disorders characterized by one or more of the following: anxiety, hysteria,
phobias, obsessive-compulsive reactions, depression,
chronic fatigue, and hypochondriacal reactions.

166
Q

What is each stage in the psychosexual stages of development characterized by?

A

A specific erogenous zone

167
Q

In Freud’s perspective, when does a person’s unique character type develop?

A

Childhood.

168
Q

For Freud, at what age is the adult personality firmly shaped?

A

5 years old.

169
Q

Why must the conflict of each stage need to be resolved?

A

It needs to be resolved so that the child may proceed to the next stage of development.

170
Q

What will happen to the child if he or she has failed to move on to the next stage?

A

The child will not want to move on to the next stage and will be strongly fixated on one stage.

171
Q

What is the condition wherein a portion of the libido remains invested in one of the psychosexual stages because of the excessive frustration or gratification?

A

Fixation

172
Q

What is the central theme of the psychosexual stages of development?

A

The infant’s sex drive

173
Q

How many stages of the psychosexual stages of development are there?

A

Five

174
Q

What are the stages of psychosexual development?

A
  1. Oral Phase
  2. Anal Phase
  3. Phallic Phase
  4. Latency Period
  5. Genital Period
175
Q

What period does the oral phase occur in?

A

The infantile period.

176
Q

What is the first stage of psychosexual development?

A

The oral phase.

177
Q

What are the phases that overlap with one another?

A

The three infantile phases

178
Q

What is the erogenous zone of the oral phase?

A

Mouth

179
Q

What is the object of pleasure of the oral phase?

A

Nipple

180
Q

Who becomes the primary object of the infant’s libido (or sexual drive)?

A

Mother or caregiver.

181
Q

What are the two types of behavior involved in the oral phase?

A

Oral-receptive behavior and oral-sadistic behavior.

182
Q

What is the behavior that occurs first and which involves the pleasurable stimulation of the mouth?

A

Oral-receptive behavior

183
Q

What is the oral-passive personality?

A

It is the result from overindulgence in infancy wherein people tend to become dependent and hold high expectations for others to satisfy their needs.

184
Q

What is the fixation of the oral-receptive behavior?

A

Excessive concern for oral activities (e.g. eating, kissing, oral hygiene, etc.)

185
Q

What behavior occurs during the painful eruption of teeth?

A

Oral-sadistic behavior

186
Q

What is the first masturbatory experience?

A

The learning of how to suck one’s thumb.

187
Q

When do infants learn to view their mother with hatred?

A

During the oral-sadistic behavior phase.

188
Q

What do infants think once they have associated their mother is responsible for everything that the infant experiences?

A

They think that she too must experience pain.

189
Q

What is the second stage of psychosexual development?

A

The anal phase.

190
Q

How is satisfaction gained through the anal phase?

A

It is gained through aggressive behavior and excretory functions.

191
Q

What is the age span of the oral phase?

A

Birth to 2 years

192
Q

What is the age span of the anal phase?

A

18 months to 3 years

193
Q

The anal phase is also a period of what?

A

Toilet training

194
Q

What is the erogenous zone of the anal phase?

A

Anus

195
Q

What is the object of pleasure of the anal phase?

A

Defecation

196
Q

What does the child learn during toilet training?

A

The child learns to postpone or delay the pleasure of the anus.

197
Q

What is an aggressive behavior during the anal phase?

A

Defying excretory regulation by defecating whenever and wherever.

198
Q

What are the two anal sub-phases?

A

Early anal period and late anal period.

199
Q

What is characterized by satisfaction derived through destroying or losing objects?

A

Early anal period.

200
Q

What is characterized by a budding interest from the erotic pleasure of defecation?

A

Late anal period.

201
Q

What will happen if the child is accepted and praised when he or she presents his or her feces as gifts to his or her parents?

A

The child will grow into a generous and easily forgiving individual.

202
Q

What will happen if the child is dismissed and punished when he or she present his or her feces as gifts to his or her parents?

A

The child will adopt another method of satisfying needs for anal pleasure such as withholding defecation until the pressure becomes painful and erotically stimulating.

203
Q

What are the two types of anal phase behaviors?

A

Anal aggressive and anal retentive.

204
Q

What is characterized by the child’s refusal to his parent’s attempt at excretory regulation?

A

Anal aggressive behavior.

205
Q

What is the basis of many forms of adult hostility and sadistic behavior?

A

Anal aggressive behavior.

206
Q

What is the fixation of the anal aggressive behavior?

A

Disorganized.

207
Q

What is the anal-aggressive personality?

A

It is a personality wherein individuals tend to have different relationships, considering them as trophies.

208
Q

What is the anal retentive behavior?

A

It is a behavior characterized by holding back excretory processes or fecal retention.

209
Q

What is characterized by holding back excretory processes or fecal retention?

A

Anal retentive behavior.

210
Q

What is the fixation of the anal retentive behavior?

A

Stubbornness, stinginess, tendency to hoard or retain things

211
Q

What is the third stage of psychosexual development?

A

The phallic phase.

212
Q

What is the phallic phase marked by?

A

Dichotomy of female and male development.

213
Q

What was not provided in the first two phases of the infantile period?

A

The distinction between male and female.

214
Q

Why is the distinction between male and female not mentioned during the first two phases of the infantile period?

A

It is because differentiation between sexes only occurs at the puberty age when the focus of sexual urges focus on the different genitalia.

215
Q

What helps shape the foundation of the child’s psychosexual development?

A

Suppression of masturbation.

216
Q

Why are phallic conflicts the most complex to resolve?

A

Individuals shy away from talks of genitals and masturbation.

217
Q

What is the age span of the phallic phase?

A

4 to 5 years of age

218
Q

What is the erogenous zone of the phallic phase?

A

Genitals

219
Q

What is the object of pleasure of the phallic phase?

A

Genital fondling and fantasies

220
Q

What is the oedipus complex?

A

It is the basic conflict of the phallic stage that features the intense fear of castration which forces a boy to repress sexual feelings for his mother.

221
Q

What does the oedipus complex center on?

A

The unconscious desire of the child for the parent of the opposite sex.

222
Q

What is the oedipus complex accompanied by?

A

The unconscious desire to destroy or replace the parent of the same sex.

223
Q

Who is the love object in the oedipus complex?

A

The mother.

224
Q

What is the castration anxiety?

A

A boy’s fear during the Oedipal period that his penis will be cut off by his father as punishment.

225
Q

What is the boy’s fear during the Oedipal period that his penis will be cut off by his father as punishment called?

A

Castration anxiety.

226
Q

What is the oedipus complex resolution?

A

It is characterized by a boy’s identification with his father and a replacement of sexual longing towards his mother with a more acceptable affection.

227
Q

Who is the love object of the elektra complex?

A

The father.

228
Q

Why does the elektra complex arise?

A

It arises from the discovery of girls that they do not have a penis.

229
Q

What does the female child do when she finds out she does not have a penis according to Freud?

A

She blames her mother for her inferior condition which leads her to love her mother less.

230
Q

Why does the female child begin to envy the father during the phallic phase?

A

It is because the father possesses the highly valued organ.

231
Q

What is the root cause of a lot of feminine reactions?

A

Penis envy

232
Q

What is characterized by the envy the female feels toward the male for having a penis?

A

Penis envy

233
Q

Can the elektra complex be fully resolved?

A

No. According to Freud, the elektra complex can never be fully resolved which leads to poorly developed superegos in women.

234
Q

What do girls identify and repress in the elektra complex?

A

Girls learn to identify with their mother and repress sexual feelings for the father.

235
Q

What do the phallic conflicts and resolution determine?

A

It determines the adult’s relations with the opposite sex.

236
Q

What is the fixation of the phallic personality?

A

Lingering forms of castration anxiety and penis envy.

237
Q

What is the phallic personality strongly characterized with?

A

Strong narcissism

238
Q

What is the difficulty that is experienced during the phallic phase?

A

Difficulty establishing mature heterosexual relationships.

239
Q

What do children need during the phallic phase?

A

Constant appreciation and recognition

240
Q

What is the male phallic personality characterized with?

A

A brash, vain, and self-assured personality – the male child grows up asserting and expressing masculinity through repeated sexual conquests.

241
Q

What is the female phallic personality characterized with?

A

It is characterized by an exaggeration of femininity as they use talents and charms to overwhelm and conquer men.

242
Q

What is repressed in both males and females during the phallic stage?

A

Tense drama.

243
Q

What level of mental life does the phallic phase motivate us?

A

Unconscious level.

Theories Of Personality (4 decks)

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