Psychoanalysis (notes)

Question 1

What are 3 reasons Freud is important

Answer 1

1) the “talking cure”
2) his “disciples” went on to be influential themselves
3) the unconscious

Question 2

What is “Libido”

Answer 2

Psychic (mental) energy, rooted in the drive
towards creating, nurturing, and the enhancement of
life (including but not limited to sex)

Question 3

What is the topographicl model of the mind?

Answer 3

Conscious, Preconscioius, and Unconscious

Question 4

What is the primary motivator of the topographical model of the mind?

Answer 4

Unconscious

Question 5

The unconscious is blocked from entering consciousness, how do we get into the unconscious?

Answer 5

Therapy
hypnotherapy

Question 6

The Id functions entirely in the __________ and all needs should be satisfied __________ (according to the id)

Answer 6

Unconscious; immediately

Question 7

What is the Reality Principle?

Answer 7

the idea that actions must take into account the contrains of external reality (ego)

Question 8

What is Introjection?

Answer 8

the absorbtion of values of the parents into the superego

Question 9

What are the two subsystems of the superego?

Answer 9

1) Ego Ideal = rules for good behavior and standards of excellence
Conscience = rules about what behaviours the parents disapprove of and punish

Question 10

What is Ego Strength?

Answer 10

The egos abilitry to be effective despite trying to balance the impulses from the pleasure principle, the reality principle, and societal expectations of the superego

Question 11

What are Parapraxes

Answer 11

A leakage from the unconscious mind manifesting as a mistake, accident, omission, or memory lapse
“Freudian slips”

Question 12

Freud argued that most of what makes us anxious and unhappy is rooted in unconscious
conflicts. How can we resolve them?

Answer 12

The only way to resolve them is to bring them into the open and only then you can address them rationally