PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY BY FREUD Flashcards
What are the three provinces of the mind
Id
Ego
Superego
Pleasure principle, impulsive, irrational, selfish seeks immediate gratification
Id
reality principle, rational, finds realistic way to gratify instincts
Emerge from infancy
Ego
morality principle, individual’s internalized moral standards
Superego
balance of the id, ego, superego
Healthy personality
arrest in development that can show up in adult personality; libido remains tied to an earlier stage of development
Fixation
What are the two types of Fixation?
Oral Fixation
Anal Fixation
may grow up to become nail-biters or smokers
Oral Fixation
may be obsessively clean, rigidly tied to schedules and routines, or definitely messy
Anal Fixation
-Mouth
-experience anxiety and the need to defend against it if denied oral gratification by not being fed on demand or being weaned too early
-Oral Fixation manifested in adults: alcoholic, smoking, overeating, Pica, nail biting, thumb sucking.
Oral
-anus
-toilet training era
Anal
perfectionist, orderly, tidy
Anal-retentive
lack of self-control, messy, careless
Anal-expulsive
youngsters develop an incestuous desire for the parent of the other sex and must defend against it
Phallic
loves his mother, fears that his father will retaliate by castrating him, and resolves the conflicts through identification with his father
Oedipus Complex
a girl having a desire with her father, seeing her mother as rival
Electra Complex
son believed his father knows about his desire for his mother and fears that his father will castrate him
Castration Anxiety
a girl wants a penis as she desires her father
penis envy
sexual urges sublimated into sports and hobbies
Latency
-physical sexual urges reawaken repressed needs
-direct sexual feelings towards other lead to sexual gratification
Genitals
ego adapts unconscious coping devices
Defense Mechanism
unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed back into the unconscious
repression
behaving as if they were at an earlier stage of development
regression
the expression of an unwanted feeling or mere thought is redirected from a more threatening powerful person to a weaker one
Displacement
people distort reality in order to justify something that has happened
Rationalization
people refuse to accept or acknowledge an anxiety-producing piece of information
Denial
people attribute unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else
Projection
people divert unwanted impulses into socially approved thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
Sublimation
unconscious impulses are expressed as their opposite in consciousness
Reaction-Formation
