Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Who is considered the founder of psychoanalysis?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud.

Question 2

What is the main focus of psychoanalysis?

Answer 2

The role of the unconscious mind in human behavior.

Question 3

What are the three levels of consciousness according to Freud?

Answer 3

Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

Question 4

What are Freud’s three components of personality?

Answer 4

Id, Ego, and Superego.

Question 5

What is the Id governed by?

Answer 5

The pleasure principle.

Question 6

What is the Ego governed by?

Answer 6

The reality principle.

Question 7

What does the Superego represent?

Answer 7

Moral standards and societal norms.

Question 8

What is repression?

Answer 8

A defense mechanism where unacceptable thoughts are pushed into the unconscious.

Question 9

What is Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?

Answer 9

A series of stages (oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital) where erogenous zones are focal points.

Question 10

What is the Oedipus complex?

Answer 10

A child’s desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Question 11

What is sublimation?

Answer 11

Redirecting unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities.

Question 12

What did Freud call dreams?

Answer 12

‘The royal road to the unconscious.’

Question 13

What is the manifest content of a dream?

Answer 13

The literal storyline of the dream.

Question 14

What is the latent content of a dream?

Answer 14

The hidden meaning behind the dream.

Question 15

What is transference in psychoanalysis?

Answer 15

The patient projects feelings for others onto the therapist.

Question 16

What is countertransference?

Answer 16

The therapist projects their own feelings onto the patient.

Question 17

Who was Anna O.?

Answer 17

A case study by Breuer and Freud, pivotal in the development of psychoanalysis.

Question 18

What is the cathartic method?

Answer 18

Releasing repressed emotions to reduce symptoms.

Question 19

What are defense mechanisms?

Answer 19

Unconscious strategies used by the Ego to manage anxiety.

Question 20

What is Freud’s ‘pleasure principle’?

Answer 20

The driving force of the Id to seek immediate gratification.

Question 21

What is the reality principle?

Answer 21

The Ego’s ability to delay gratification to meet external demands.

Question 22

What is fixation in psychosexual stages?

Answer 22

An unresolved conflict leading to being stuck in a stage.

Question 23

What is Freud’s view on humor?

Answer 23

It reveals repressed desires and unconscious conflicts.

Question 24

What is the role of the libido?

Answer 24

It is the life energy derived from the sexual instinct.

Question 25

What is the main criticism of Freud’s theories?

Answer 25

They are unscientific and lack falsifiability.

Question 26

Who influenced Freud’s ideas of repression?

Answer 26

Herbart and Schopenhauer.

Question 27

What are the three types of anxiety Freud described?

Answer 27

Objective, neurotic, and moral anxiety.

Question 28

What is displacement?

Answer 28

Redirecting emotions from a threatening target to a safer one.

Question 29

What is projection?

Answer 29

Attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings to others.

Question 30

What is Carl Jung’s contribution to psychoanalysis?

Answer 30

He expanded on Freud’s work with concepts like archetypes and the collective unconscious.