psychoanalytic approach - Freud Flashcards
dreams
unconscious mind
manifest content
recalled by dreamer, not true representation, symbols
primary process thinking
dreams irrational mental activity
pleasure principle
seek pleasure, avoid pain
secondary process thinking
rational thought, logical
reality principle
facts in the real world
what motivates people?
Eros/ libido/ thanatos
Eros
life creating and preserving drives, hunger and and pain
Thanatos
death instinct, self-destruction
structures of personality
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
id
raw inhibited instinctual energy/ no head to consequences/ subconscious
Ego
control Id/ conscious/ reality principle
Superego
conscience of individual/ control id and influence ego to be moral
Freud’s five psychosexual stages of development
- Birth to 1yr (Oral stage)
- 1-3yrs (anal stage)
- 3-6yrs (Phallic stage)
- 7-11 (Latency stage)
- puberty onward (Genital stage)
Oral Stage - birth to 1yr
senses/ libidinal energy invested in pleasure giver(Cathexis)/f ixation
Anal Stage - 2 to 3yrs
sensual pleasure from bowel movements/ toilet training to avoid fixation
Phallic Stage - 3 to 5yrs
genitals source of pleasure/ socialisation into male and female roles/ penis envy
Oedipal Complex
identify with father
Electra Complex
identify with mother
Latency Stage - 5 to 12yrs
resting age/ energies used in socialisation and learning
Genital Stage - 12 to 18yrs
puberty reawakens libido/ problems at earlier stages of development emerge
Defence mechanisms
conflicting demands of the Id, Ego, and Superego produces anxiety/ emerges at latency stage
Defensive Mechanisms
- Repression
- Denial
- Projector
- Reaction Formation
- Rationalisation
- Conversion Reaction
- Phobic Avoidance
- Displacement
- Regression
- Isolation
- Undoing
- Sublimation
clinical applications of defence mechanisms
psychoanalytic method/ Catharsis/ Abreaction/ Free Association/ Transference, Counter-transference
