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Psychoanalytic Theory Flashcards

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Dual Instinct Theory

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  • Freud

- 2 basic Instincts: Eros & Thanatos

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Structural Theory of Mind

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  • Freud proposed it

- He believes that personality of an individual is a 3 tier structure: Id, Ego, Superego

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Eros (Life Instincts)

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  • Serves purpose of survival

- manifested in the form of psychic energy called as ‘libido’.

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Cathexis

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-the process of allocation (or attachment) of mental or emotional energy to a person, object, or idea

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Libido

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-Psychic energy or drive associated with sexual instinct

but also with other instinctive desires/drives

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Thanatos (Death Instinct)

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  • Unconscious drive towards decay, destruction, and aggression.
  • Aggressive Drive* : compels us to destroy, conquer and kill. (component of Thanatos)
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Id

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Primarily pleasure seeking instinct

  • present since birth
  • illogical/infantile/
  • gratification seeking
  • Detached from reality
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Ego

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  • Primarily functions on reality principle
  • Mediates between Id and Super Ego
  • Operates mainly at conscious level but also preconscious level
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Super Ego

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  • Primarily deals with morals and ethics
  • develops by 3-5yrs (phallic stage)
  • Consists of conscience and ego ideal
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Levels of Personality

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Freud opined that personality was divided into 3 levels: Conscious, Preconscious and Unconscious.

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Conscious

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  • Contains all of the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes of which we are aware at any given moment.
  • It’s the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally.
  • It includes our memory, which is not always part of consciousness but can be retrieved easily and brought into awareness.
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Preconscious

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  • Storehouse of memories, perceptions, and thoughts of which we are not consciously aware at the moment
  • We can easily summon it into consciousness
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Unconscious

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  • It is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness.
  • It contains contents that are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict that direct our behaviour.
  • Major Driving force of behaviour
  • Repository of forces we can’t see or control.
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Identifying the Unconscious

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  • 2 ways to identify unconscious:
    a. Freudian Slip
    b. Dreams
  • They are representative of the unconscious wishes/desires.
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Psychosexual Stages of Development

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  • Conceptualised by Freud

- Children pass through a series of stages of psychosexual development defined by erogenous zones

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Oral Stage

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  • Occurs form 0-1 years
  • Oral Incorporative: Involves pleasurable stimulation of the mouth by other people and food. Adults fixated at this stage-excessively concerned with oral activities-eating, drinking, smoking, kissing.
  • Oral Aggressive: Occurs during painful eruption of teeth; infants start viewing mother with hatred as they believe her to be responsible. *Adults who are fixated at this stage-pessimistic, aggressive, hostile.
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Anal Stage

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  • Occurs during 1-3 years
  • Toilet Training major issue- either child learns to
    a. Holding on to feces: resulting in Anal Retentive Personality-Rigid, compulsively neat, obstinate, and overly conscientious.
    b. Letting go of feces wherever: resulting in Anal Expulsive Personality-hostility, sadistic behaviour, cruelty, destructiveness, temper tantrums
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Phallic Stage

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  • Occurs during 4-5 years
  • Basic Conflict: Unconscious attraction/desire of the child towards the parent of the opposite sex
    a. Oedipal Complex: Boy’s unconscious sexual desire for mother; resentment towards father. (Boys develop castration anxiety)
    b. Electra Complex: Girls unconscious sexual desire for Father; resentment of Mother. (Girls develop penis envy)
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Latency Stage

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  • 5 yrs to Puberty

- Sex instinct sublimated in school activities, sports, friendships with people of the same sex.

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Genital Stage

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  • Occurs during adolescence & adulthood
  • Final stage of dev
  • Conflict during this period is less intense than in other stages according to Freud.
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Freud’s Assessment Techniques

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  • Free Association

- Dream Analysis

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Free Association

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  • Client spontaneously expresses ideas/images in a random fashion
  • Resistances: Experiences/Memories that are too painful to talk about
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Dream Analysis

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  • Analysed 2 aspects of dreams:
  • Latent Content: the hidden, symbolic meaning of dreams
  • Manifest Content: refers to actual events in the dreams

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