PSYCHOANALYTIC ASPECT OF PERSONALITY Flashcards
________ is on unconscious and emotions as determinants of personality.
Emphasis
considered as the Father of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Where Sigmund Freud was born?
Jew. Born in Frieberg, Moravia (now Prebor, Czechoslovakia)
When Sigmund Freud was born?
May 6, 1856. (either on March 6 or May 6, 1856.)
At what age Freud’s entered medical school?
17 years old
Studied under Viennese neurologist Joseph Breuer on treating _____
hysteria
He studied treating hysteria under Viennese neurologist?
Joseph Breuer
He went to France to study under ________ who used hypnosis in treating hysteria.
Jean Charcot
In what year he established his own clinic and used hypnosis in treating hysteria?
1881
The fundamental rule of psychoanalysis.
Free association (free talk)
What Freud’s emphasized as the cause of hysteria?
Sexual conflicts
Where he got dismissed?
Vienna Medical Society
Personality three levels likened to an icebergs
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
includes all forms of awareness, memories and experiences
Conscious
past memories which are not readily available
Preconscious
no awareness level; repository of repressed and forgotten events
Unconscious
The Three Structures of Personality
ID
Ego
Super ego
Source of biological drives, unconscious, operates according to the demands of the pleasure principle (satisfy pleasure and reduce inner tension)
ID
Example of ID
Baby cries for milk, gets pleasure and gratification.
What is ID in Latin and German?
It, Das es
Operates at reality principle and that life is bounded by rules. The structure that compels the person to deal with the realities of life.
Ego
Example of Ego
Baby has to deal with reality of life (mom is tired, dirty diapers).
What is Ego in Latin and German?
I, das ich
Ethical and moral arm of personality. It develops out of the EGO, after it develops out of the ID.
Super ego
Example of Super ego
The baby satisfies the id, learns to be realistic, but is encouraged to follow moral or acceptable ways.
What is Super ego German?
Uber ich (above I)
2 components of super ego
Ego ideal
Conscience
what the person likes to be (develops from experiences with rewards for proper behavior and tells us what we should do).
Ego ideal
a built-in reinforcement process that makes a person feel satisfied when doing right and guilt when doing wrong.
Conscience
a psychological error in speaking or writing that reveals about the unconscious
Freudian slip
If the ego and superego fails to perform accordingly, the id emerges to control _____
Freudian slip
motivational principle, the driving forces behind people’s actions.
Instinct/drive/impulses
As an internal stimulus, drives differ from external stimuli in that they cannot be avoided through flight.
It operates as a constant motivational force
Two major group of drives
Sex or Eros
Aggression, distraction, or Thanatos
What is eros mean?
Life
What is Thanatos mean?
Death
psychic libido of sex drive (aggressive drive remains the same)
Libido