Psychoanalysis Flashcards
While still a student, Sigmund Freud made substantial and noteworthy contributions to research, publishing his findings on the nervous system of f__ and the t__ __ __ __
fish & testes of the eel
He developed a method of staining cells for microscopic study and as a physician explored the anesthetic properties of cocaine
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud studied in Paris with the French psychiatrist J__ C__
Jean Charcot
Freud was influenced by J__ B__ and later on worked together in writing up cases
Joseph Breuer
Breuer and Freud worked together in writing up some of cases in S__ in H__ (1895)
Studies in Hysteria
In 1909, Freud published what book?
The Interpretation of Dreams
What was the aim of the supposed “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”?
“to bring together the doctrines of Psychoanalysis and to state them in the most concise form”
The only works that Freud systematically tried to keep up to date were TIE(1900) and TES (1905)
The Interpretation of Dreams
& Three Essays on Sexuality
Whose case began the Psychoanalysis?
Anna O.
What was Anna O. suffering from?
a conversion disorder in which her right arm and leg were paralyzed, She had difficulty seeing, was nauseous, and was unable to drink any liquids or to speak and understand her mother tongue. She was also prone to states of absence.
How did Anna O.’s symptoms went away?
Breuer hypnotized her to tell stories; she began to tell about her father’s illness and death and so on
a dynamic one in which certain forces repress undesirable thoughts and then actively resist their becoming conscious
Unconscious process
those ideas or thoughts that would be repressed and rendered unconsciously
Wishes
a patient is asked to verbalize whatever comes to mind, no matter how insignificant, trivial, or even unpleasant the idea, thought, or picture may seem.
Free association
In the process of free association, particular attention is paid to s__ and d__.
slips & dreams
S___ are bungled acts: a __ of the tongue, a __ of the pen, or a lapse of memory
Slips
It assumes that in our psychic life nothing is trifling or lawless; rather, there is a motive for everything.
Freudian theory
It implies the action of a material, impersonal force that brings something about
Cause
It refers to personal agency and implies an emotion or desire operating on the will of a person and leading him or her to act
Motive
For Freud, all events are o__d__— that is, they have more than one meaning or explanation
overdetermined
It is the “royal road” to unconscious
slips and dreams
is the dream as it is remembered the next morning. Such a dream frequently appears incoherent and nonsensical, the fantasy of a mad person. Nevertheless, it presents some kind of narrative story
manifest dream
is the meaning or motive underlying the manifest dream
latent dream
a bodily process that could be totally understood under a model of tension reduction
Sexuality
could be compared to a wish to remove an itch
Sexual desires
refer to the emotional and psychic energy derived from the biological drive of sexuality testifies to this shift in his thought
Libido
a psychological or mental representation of an inner bodily source of excitement
Drive
Four Features of Drive: SIAO
- Source
- Impetus
- Aim
- Object
the bodily stimulus or need
Source
the amount of energy or intensity of the need
Impetus
its goal and purpose
Aim
the person or object in the environment through which the aim may be satisfied
Object