Psychoanalytic - Freud

Question 1

psyche

Answer 1

made of three elements: the Id, ego, and superego

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

The id is the part of the personality that contains our primitive impulses—such as thirst, anger, hunger—and the desire for instant gratification or release

Question 3

Pleasure principle

Answer 3

The driving force of the id, this refers to one’s desire to obtain immediate gratification of needs by obtaining pleasure and avoiding pain.

Question 4

superego

Answer 4

the part of the personality that represents the conscience, the moral part of us.

Question 5

Ego

Answer 5

the part of the personality that maintains a balance between our impulses (our id) and our conscience (our superego)

Question 6

Defense mechanism

Answer 6

used by the ego as a way to deal with conflict of problems in life

Question 7

Repression

Answer 7

defensive process where an individual’s impulses and instinctual desires are blocked from entering one’s conscious

Question 8

Denial

Answer 8

an individual’s refusal to accept certain or confront (or all) aspects of a given reality in order to avoid potential feelings of discomfort

Question 9

Projection

Answer 9

projection onto another person of feelings, past associations, or experiences

Question 10

Fixation

Answer 10

a state where a person becomes attached to or overly invested in another individual or object

Question 11

Parapraxis (Freudian Slip)

Answer 11

Revealing an unconscious desire or conflict through a mistake, for example, a slip of the tongue or forgetting someone’s name

Question 12

Unconscious

Answer 12

three parts (levels) of the mind, the conscious, preconscious, and the unconscious. The unconscious is the part of the mind that stores feelings, thoughts, and urges unaware to the individual