Psychoanalytic

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Unconscious

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The repressed part of the mind containing our feelings and desires (75-80%)

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Preconscious

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Memories; information you can easily recall (10-15%)

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Conscious

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What you are aware of in the present moment (10%)

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Freud believed that our mind is composed of 3 parts:

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Id
Ego
Superego

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The Id is the primitive component of our personality
It acts on the

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‘pleasure principle’: our pleasures should be satisfied immediately regardless of the consequences

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The Ego develops to mediate

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between the Id and the external world

It is the decision-making component of the personality and will attempt to compromise

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The Superego incorporates the

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values and morals of society
It is always pushing the individual to strive for perfection

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Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state that can occur

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when one part of our mind goes unchecked

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There are 3 kinds of anxiety:

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Reality
Neurotic
Moral

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Reality Anxiety is the most common form and often

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based on real-world events

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Neurotic Anxiety

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is rooted in an unconscious fear (Id) and experiencing negative consequences

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Moral Anxiety stems from society

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(Superego) and is the fear of disobeying laws or your own morals

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Defense Mechanisms is our

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minds response to anxiety

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It is the Ego’s way of coping with

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the Id and Superego

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All Defense Mechanisms appear unconsciously

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and can distort our sense of reality

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Defense Mechanisms
-Denial is when we claim or believe that what is

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true to be actually false; often an outright refusal to admit the obvious truth
ex. refusing to acknowledge addiction

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Defense Mechanisms
-Displacement

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is when we redirectnegative emotions to a substitute target

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Defense Mechanisms
-Intellectualization is when we take an overly

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objective and rational point of view (avoid emotions)
ex. finding out you have an illness and immediately researching it

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Defense Mechanisms
-Rationalization\

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is when we create false but credible justifications for others behaviour or actions
ex. not being invited to an outing and justifying that decision

Question 19

Defense Mechanisms
-Projection is when we can identify traits we

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dislike in ourselves and then attribute them to others
ex. accusing your partner of lying if you regularly lie to them

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Defense Mechanisms
-Regression is when we revert

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back to childish behaviour due to an inability to cope

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Defense Mechanisms
-Repression

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is when we subconsciously keep negative thoughts from becoming conscious

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Defense Mechanisms
Sublimation

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is when we transform socially unacceptable behaviour is when we transform socially unacceptable behaviour into acceptable behaviour or rechannel our energy

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Freud’s Theory
Freud also saw value in our unconsciousness and

Condensation:
Manifest:
Latent

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dreams

-The grouping of our feelings into content for a dream
-The plot of dreams
-The true meaning behind the symbols in your dream

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Based on premises and procedures established by

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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Psychoanalytic critics focus on apparent dilemmas and conflicts in a work and

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“attempt to read an author’s own family life and traumas into the actions of their characters”

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Freud believed that our unconscious was influenced by

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hildhood events. He suggested that “we unconsciously behave in ways that will allow us to ‘play out’…our conflicted feelings about the painful experiences and emotions we repress” (15). To keep all of this conflict buried in our unconscious, Freud argued that we develop defenses: selective perception, selective memory, denial, displacement, projection, regression, fear of intimacy, and fear of death, among others.

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Freud maintained that our desires and our unconscious conflicts give rise to three areas of the mind that wrestle for dominance as we grow from infancy, to childhood, to adulthood:

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id - “…the location of the drives” or libido
ego - “…one of the major defenses against the power of the drives…” and home of the defenses listed above
superego - the area of the unconscious that houses Judgment (of self and others) and “…which begins to form during childhood as a result of the Oedipus complex

Question 28

Theoretical framework: literature, like dreams, consists of the imagined or fantasized fulfillment of wishes that are either denied by

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reality or are prohibited by the social standards of morality and propriety.

Question 29

The forbidden, mainly sexual (“libidinal”) wishes come into conflict with, and are repressed by, the “censor”

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(the internalized representative within each individual of the standards of society) and are kept in the unconscious, but are permitted by the censor to achieve a fantasized satisfaction in distorted forms that disguise their real motives from the conscious mind.