PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECT OF PERSONALITY Flashcards

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________ is on unconscious and emotions as determinants of personality.

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Emphasis

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considered as the Father of Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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Where Sigmund Freud was born?

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Jew. Born in Frieberg, Moravia (now Prebor, Czechoslovakia)

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When Sigmund Freud was born?

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May 6, 1856. (either on March 6 or May 6, 1856.)

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At what age Freud’s entered medical school?

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17 years old

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Studied under Viennese neurologist Joseph Breuer on treating _____

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hysteria

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He studied treating hysteria under Viennese neurologist?

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Joseph Breuer

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He went to France to study under ________ who used hypnosis in treating hysteria.

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Jean Charcot

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In what year he established his own clinic and used hypnosis in treating hysteria?

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1881

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10
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The fundamental rule of psychoanalysis.

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Free association (free talk)

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What Freud’s emphasized as the cause of hysteria?

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Sexual conflicts

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12
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Where he got dismissed?

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Vienna Medical Society

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13
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Personality three levels likened to an icebergs

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Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious

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includes all forms of awareness, memories and experiences

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Conscious

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past memories which are not readily available

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Preconscious

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no awareness level; repository of repressed and forgotten events

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Unconscious

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17
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The Three Structures of Personality

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ID
Ego
Super ego

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Source of biological drives, unconscious, operates according to the demands of the pleasure principle (satisfy pleasure and reduce inner tension)

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ID

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Example of ID

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Baby cries for milk, gets pleasure and gratification.

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20
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What is ID in Latin and German?

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It, Das es

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Operates at reality principle and that life is bounded by rules. The structure that compels the person to deal with the realities of life.

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Ego

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Example of Ego

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Baby has to deal with reality of life (mom is tired, dirty diapers).

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What is Ego in Latin and German?

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I, das ich

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Ethical and moral arm of personality. It develops out of the EGO, after it develops out of the ID.

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Super ego

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Example of Super ego

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The baby satisfies the id, learns to be realistic, but is encouraged to follow moral or acceptable ways.

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26
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What is Super ego German?

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Uber ich (above I)

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27
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2 components of super ego

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Ego ideal
Conscience

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what the person likes to be (develops from experiences with rewards for proper behavior and tells us what we should do).

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Ego ideal

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a built-in reinforcement process that makes a person feel satisfied when doing right and guilt when doing wrong.

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Conscience

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30
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a psychological error in speaking or writing that reveals about the unconscious

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Freudian slip

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31
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If the ego and superego fails to perform accordingly, the id emerges to control _____

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Freudian slip

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motivational principle, the driving forces behind people’s actions.

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Instinct/drive/impulses

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As an internal stimulus, drives differ from external stimuli in that they cannot be avoided through flight.

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It operates as a constant motivational force

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34
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Two major group of drives

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Sex or Eros
Aggression, distraction, or Thanatos

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35
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What is eros mean?

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Life

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36
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What is Thanatos mean?

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Death

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37
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psychic libido of sex drive (aggressive drive remains the same)

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Libido

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38
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Characteristics of libido

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Impetus
Source
Libido

39
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is the amount of force it exerts

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Impetus

40
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the region of the body in a state of excitation or tension

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Source

41
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is to seek pleasure by removing that excitation or reducing the tension

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Aim

42
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the person or thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied

Ex. Sex, aggression

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Object

43
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all pleasurable activity is traceable to the sexual drive.

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Sex

44
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pleasure, not limited to genital satisfaction but the entire body is invested with libido.

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Aim

45
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the need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person.

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Sadism (aggression)

46
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a common need, becomes a perversion when subservient to the destructive drive.

experience sexual pleasure from suffering pain and humiliation inflicted either by themselves or by others. B

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Masochism (aggression)

47
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Besides the genitals, the mouth and anus are especially capable of producing sexual pleasure and are called _________.

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Erogenous zones

48
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The aim of the destructive drive, according to Freud, is to return the organism to an inorganic state. Because the ultimate inorganic condition is death, the final aim of the aggressive drive is self-destruction. As with the sexual drive, aggression is flexible.

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Aggression

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Forms of aggression

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Teasing
Gossiping
sarcasm
humiliation
humor
the enjoyment of other people’s suffering

50
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a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger.

The unpleasantness is often vague and hard to pinpoint, but the anxiety itself is always felt.

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Anxiety

51
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3 kinds of Anxiety

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Neurotic Anxiety
Moral Anxiety
Realistic Anxiety

52
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(ego’s dependence on the id), apprehension about anunknown danger

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Neurotic Anxiety

53
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(dependence on the superego), stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego, for example, would result from sexual temptations if a child believes that yielding to the temptation would be morally wrong.

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Moral Anxiety

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(dependence on the outer world leads to realistic anxiety), closely related to fear. It is defined as an unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger.

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Realistic Anxiety

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Functions/uses of anxieties

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• ego-preserving mechanism

Ex. an anxiety dream signals our censor of an impending danger.

• Self-regulating

56
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it signals us that some danger is at hand

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Ego-preserving mechanism

57
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it precipitates repression, which in turn reduces the pain of anxiety

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Self regulating

58
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Psychosexual stages

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  1. Oral Stage (birth to 18 months)
  2. Anal Stage (18 months to 3 yrs)
  3. Phallic Stage (3 yrs to 6)
  4. Latency Stage (6 to puberty)
  5. Genital Stage (puberty onwards)
59
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the child is focused on oral pleasures like sucking, biting, eating.

It is sometimes called the erogenous zone or the channel of pleasure.

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Oral Stage

60
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lasting effects when unresolved ______ which the individual is psychologically stuck at this stage.

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Fixation

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The child’s focus of pleasure in this stage is on eliminating and retaining feces. This is a stage of toilet training.

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Anal Stage

62
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Describe the erogenous zone in Anal Stage which is the anus

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Retentive
Expulsive
Excessive

63
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Fixation in anal stage

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overeating, becoming stingy, or being messy.

64
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The pleasure zone switches to the genitals.

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Phallic Stage

65
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boys develop unconscious sexual desires for their mothers known as ______.

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Oedipus complex

66
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Freud’s notion of a boy’s sexual feelings for his mother and rivalries with his father.

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Oedipus complex

67
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Freud’s notion of unconscious fear from a boy’s struggle to deal with his love for his mother while knowing that he cannot overcome his father.

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Castration Anxiety

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Freud’s notion of a phenomenon in which girls develop inferiority feelings and jealousy over her lack of a penis (but realizes she can be a mother to be complete)

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Penis envy

69
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during this stage that sexual urges remain repressed or become calm and children interact and play mostly with same sex peers.

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Latency Stage

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The final stage of psychosexual development begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are once again awakened.

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Genetil Stage

71
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sexuality issues

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masturbation, homosexuality, childless

72
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Happens in genital Stage

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Genuine friendships, love, social attachments, and child rearing.

73
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excessive use of defense mechanism can lead topsychological disorders.

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▪ Environmental demands and inner urges result to anxiety.

▪ Intrapsychic conflicts are resolved by the ego if anxiety becomes overwhelming.

▪ Serves as the insulator of the ego to protect it from breaking.

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▪ Environmental demands and inner urges result to anxiety.

▪ Intrapsychic conflicts are resolved by the ego if anxiety becomes overwhelming.

▪ Serves as the insulator of the ego to protect it from breaking.

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Defense Mechanism

75
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arguing against an anxiety provoking stimulus by stating it doesn’t exist

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Denial

76
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taking out impulses on a less threatening target

e.g. slamming a door instead of hitting as person, yelling at your spouse after an argument with your boss.

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Displacement

77
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avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on theintellectual aspects

e.g. focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and grief.

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Intellectualization

78
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placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else

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Projection

79
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supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason

e.g. stating that you were fired because you did not like the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance.

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Rationalization

80
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taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety

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Reaction formation

81
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returning to a previous stage of development

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Regression

82
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acting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way

e.g. watching boxing

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Sublimation

83
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pushing into the unconscious

e.g. forgetting

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Suppression

84
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What is lieben und arbeiten?

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Love and work

85
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The definition of Freud’s mental health in Lieben und Arbeiten, or love and work.

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The attainment of direct sexual satisfaction and indirect sublimation of sexual instinct.

86
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This is possible by:

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  1. Elimination of major fixations in psychosexual development.
  2. Resolving fixations through psychoanalytic treatment by digging up repressed issues in the unconscious and surfacing it to the conscious to develop the ego.
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Psychotherapy Techniques

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  1. Free association/free talking
    - Concepts Emerging in Free Association
    - Catharsis
    - Transference
    - Countertransference
88
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It requires the patient to say whatever comes to head.

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Free Association/free talking

89
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The treatment produces INSIGHT, the understanding of the true unconscious conflicts.

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Concepts emerging in free association

90
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the emergence of buried feelings (fear, grief, other forgotten memories) in the unconscious. This is the turning point or healing.

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Catharsis

91
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This happens when the repressed feelings (positive or negative) surfaced can be channeled to the therapist

i.e love for the father is transferred as love to the therapist.

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Transference

92
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The therapist’s reaction to the patient is distorted by own unresolved conflicts.

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Countertransference

93
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Evaluating Freud’s perspectives

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  1. He was the only one who focused on the unconscious.
  2. Problems can be caused by reasons that are not conscious, that is the Unconscious.
  3. He provided basis for understanding defense mechanisms as an activity to protect the ego.
  4. Too much focus on sexual instincts, which is difficult to reconcile with modern perspectives
  5. The conscious can control the impulses brought about by unconscious