Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Who is considered the founder of psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud.
What is the main focus of psychoanalysis?
The role of the unconscious mind in human behavior.
What are the three levels of consciousness according to Freud?
Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.
What are Freud’s three components of personality?
Id, Ego, and Superego.
What is the Id governed by?
The pleasure principle.
What is the Ego governed by?
The reality principle.
What does the Superego represent?
Moral standards and societal norms.
What is repression?
A defense mechanism where unacceptable thoughts are pushed into the unconscious.
What is Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
A series of stages (oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital) where erogenous zones are focal points.
What is the Oedipus complex?
A child’s desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.
What is sublimation?
Redirecting unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities.
What did Freud call dreams?
‘The royal road to the unconscious.’
What is the manifest content of a dream?
The literal storyline of the dream.
What is the latent content of a dream?
The hidden meaning behind the dream.
What is transference in psychoanalysis?
The patient projects feelings for others onto the therapist.
What is countertransference?
The therapist projects their own feelings onto the patient.
Who was Anna O.?
A case study by Breuer and Freud, pivotal in the development of psychoanalysis.
What is the cathartic method?
Releasing repressed emotions to reduce symptoms.
What are defense mechanisms?
Unconscious strategies used by the Ego to manage anxiety.
What is Freud’s ‘pleasure principle’?
The driving force of the Id to seek immediate gratification.
What is the reality principle?
The Ego’s ability to delay gratification to meet external demands.
What is fixation in psychosexual stages?
An unresolved conflict leading to being stuck in a stage.
What is Freud’s view on humor?
It reveals repressed desires and unconscious conflicts.
What is the role of the libido?
It is the life energy derived from the sexual instinct.
What is the main criticism of Freud’s theories?
They are unscientific and lack falsifiability.
Who influenced Freud’s ideas of repression?
Herbart and Schopenhauer.
What are the three types of anxiety Freud described?
Objective, neurotic, and moral anxiety.
What is displacement?
Redirecting emotions from a threatening target to a safer one.
What is projection?
Attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings to others.
What is Carl Jung’s contribution to psychoanalysis?
He expanded on Freud’s work with concepts like archetypes and the collective unconscious.
