Personality Flashcards
Id
(First)
Sigmund Freud
Victorian age
Sex
Ego
(Second)
More logical and practical
Super ego
(Last)
Sense of morality
Pleasure principle
Id (hedonistic)
Seeks pleasure avoids pain
Reality principle
Egos awareness of external world
Libido
Sex drive
Thanatos
Death instinct
Eros
Love for life
Primary process
Need immediate and instant gratification
Secondary process
Ability to delay gratification
Conscience
Morally bad
Ego ideal
Childs perception of what they think their parents think is morally good
Conscious
Aware of our thoughts
Preconscious
Not conscious but can easily become conscious
Unconscious
Region of mind where we can’t access our thoughts
Manifest content
Parts of dream we recall
Latent content
Hidden meaning of dream
Discovered through dream interpretation
Symbols
Something that stands for something else
Rationalization
Give ourselves false reassurances about an anxiety producing experience in order to reduce our anxiety
Rationalization-sweet lemons
What we have we love and think is great
Clothes to expensive? Love ones I have
Rationalization- sour grapes
What we can’t have we tell our selfs we don’t want anyway
Can’t reach coconut? Don’t want it anyway
Oral stage
Birth 18 months
Pleasure comes from mouth
Fixation
Being stuck in a psychosexual stage