Psychoanalytical Perspectives

Question 1

Freud’s 3 parts of the psyche=

Answer 1

Id
Ego
Superego

Question 2

The id=

Answer 2

Tells us to pleasure
We are born with this drive
Struggles to be controlled by ego

Question 3

The Ego

Answer 3

Develops after the id
Keeps id under control (struggles!)
Needed to have strong, successful social relationships

Question 4

The Superego

Answer 4

MORALS
Values that we have
Challenges ego to observe moral values

Question 5

3 compromises when unconscious leaks through:

Answer 5

Dreams
Neurotic symptoms
Defence mechanisms

Question 6

Example of Neurotic symptom:

Answer 6

Phobias
- this is when the ego spills out

Question 7

What led to Little Hans having severe fear of horses?

Answer 7

He had a cart accident when he was younger, which led to his refusal of leaving the house in fear he would come across a horse

Question 8

What does Freud claim Little Hans was actually afraid of?

Answer 8

= Castration fear-oedipus complex

Question 9

Freud’s explanation for Little Hans=

Answer 9

Claims Hans displaced his anger towards his father, he projected onto horses as they were a ‘safe target’

Question 10

What is the oedipus complex=

Answer 10

Castration fear
Idea that little boys (age 4/5) fall in love with mothers
His father then becomes his rival
Then becomes fearful of retaliation from his father, due to the love
& worries his father will find a way to rule him out of the rivalry
So…. therefore believes his father will castrate him.

Question 11

What defence mechanism does Freud himself identify?

Answer 11

Repression

Question 12

What is repression?

Answer 12

Comes out in dreams
= Find ways of not thinking about a subject

Question 13

What are the remaining Defence Mechanisms identified by Anna Freud?

Answer 13

Regression
Denial
Reaction formation
Projection
Displacement
Sublimation
Identification with aggression

Question 14

What is sublimation?

Answer 14

Threats the ego
- can be positive
- e.g. artists pour anguish into their work

Question 15

What is projection?

Answer 15

= You believe everyone around you is angry, because you yourself are an angry person
- if you lie a lot, you then are suspicious of everyone else around you lying also

Question 16

What is reaction formation?

Answer 16

= You protect yourself by acting the opposite way
- e.g. how people become bullies

Question 17

What is regression?

Answer 17

= Way of coping, back to when you had capability to cope

Question 18

Another famous case study of Freud, who goes by ‘Dora’ is??

Answer 18

Ida Bauer
18 year old girl

Question 19

Case study of ’Dora’

Answer 19

= Freud described her symptoms as hysteria
Freud explained this was due to her complex family issues, including her being sexually abused
Freud believed that Dora was in love with her abuser, and this was the reason for her hysteria

Question 20

What was the result of Dora’s case study?

Answer 20

She abandoned her analysis with Freud after 11 weeks
- Freud believed he was a failure

Question 21

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 21

= Identifies latent content that is represented by the manifest content (dreams)

Question 22

Aims of psychoanalysis=

Answer 22

=
1. make unconscious, conscious
2. under unsatisfactory defences
3. re-experience repressed feelings
4. explore solutions

Question 23

Types of psychoanalysis =

Answer 23

=
Brief focal therapy
Lacanian psychoanalysis
Interpersonal psychodynamic therapy