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Sigmund Freud Flashcards

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levels of mental life

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unconscious
preconscious
unconscious

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unconscious drives, urges, and instincts motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions. We’re often unaware of the mental processes behind our overt behaviors.

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unconscious

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the unconscious is the explanation for the meaning behind dreams, slips of the tongue, and certain kinds of forgetting.

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repression

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a portion of our unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations of repetition.

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phylogenetic endowment

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contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

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preconscious

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a person perceives is conscious for only a transitory period.

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conscious perception

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freud believed that many everyday slips are not chance accidents but reveal a person’s unconscious intentions.

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freudian slip

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those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time. It is the only level of mental life directly available to us.

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conscious

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includes nonthreatening ideas from the preconscious as well as menacing but well-disguised images from the unconscious.

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mental structure

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They are merely hypothetical constructs.

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provinces of the mind

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3 provinces of the mind

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ID / Ego / Superego

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pleasure principle / has no contact with reality

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ID (Das Es)

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reality principle / the decision making to executive branch of personality

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Ego (Das Ich)

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guided by the moralistic and realistic principle

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Superego (Uber Ich)

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results from experiences with punishments for improper behaviour and tells us what we should not do.

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conscience

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develops from experiences with rewards for proper behaviour and tells us what we should do.

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ego - ideal

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“motivational principle” to explain the driving forces behind people’s actions.

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dynamics of personality

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operate as a constant motivational force and as an internal stimulus, drives differs from external stimuli in that they cannot be avoided through flight.

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drive / impulse

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aim is pleasure but is not limited to genital satisfaction

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sex drive

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the genitals, the mouth, and the anus are capable of producing sexual pleasures.

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erogenous zones

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can be withdrawn from one person to another and placed in a state of free - floating tension, or it can be reinvested in another person, including the self.

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libido

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involves love of one’s self

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narcissism

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is when their libido is invested exclusively on their own ego.

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primary narcissism

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not universal but a moderate degree of self love is common to nearly everyone (family, friends, lovers)

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secondary narcissism

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invest their libido on an object or person other than themselves.

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love

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need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person.

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sadism

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sexual pleasure from suffering from pain and humiliation inflicted by either themselves or others.

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masochism

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destructive drive / fully flexible and can take a number of forms like; teasing, gossiping, sarcasm, humiliation, humor, and enjoyment in other peoples suffering.

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aggression

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it is a felt and unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger.

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anxiety

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3 types of anxiety

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neurotic
moral
reality

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apprehension about an unknown danger.

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neurotic

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stems from conflict between ego and superego.

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moral

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closely related to fear.

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reality

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a process used by the ego to distort reality and protect a person from anxiety.

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defense mechanism

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example: a young girl may permanently repress her hostility for a younger sister because her hateful feelings create too much anxiety. / what defense mechanism is this?

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repression

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example: she hates her sister, but when she approached by her sister, she smile / what defense mechanism is this?

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reaction formation

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example: the boss fired him so when he got home, he kicked the dog. / what defense mechanism is this?

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displacement

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example: every time you experiencing stress or anxiety, you smoke, eat, or talk too much. / what defense mechanism is this?

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fixation

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example: under extreme stress one adult may adopt the fetal position, another may return home to mother. / what defense mechanism is this?

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regression

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example: “I’m not alcoholic, you are alcoholic” / what defense mechanism is this?

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projection

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a mental disorder with an extreme type of projection, it is characterized by powerful delusions of jealousy and persecution.

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paranoia

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example: an adolescent may introject or adopt the mannerisms, values, or lifestyle of a movie star. / what defense mechanism is this?

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introjection

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example: when a person is sad, he paints instead of being sad. / what defense mechanism is this?

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sublimation

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stages of development

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infantile
latency
genital

45
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psychosexual stages

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oral
anal
phallic

46
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this is the first four (4) to five (5) years of life and is considered the most crucial for personality formation.

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infantile stage

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most of infants’s pleasure comes from stimulation of the mouth.

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oral stage

48
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characterized by satisfaction gained through aggressive behavior and through the excretory function called sadistic - anal phase.

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anal stage

49
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children receive satisfaction by destroying or losing objects.

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early anal

50
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they sometimes take a friendly interest toward their feces, an interest that stems from the erotic pleasure of defecating.

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late anal

51
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people who continue to receive erotic satisfaction by keeping and possessing objects and by arranging them in an excessively neat and orderly fashion.

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anal character

52
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orderliness stinginess, and obstinacy which typifies the adult anal character.

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anal triad

53
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child starts to differentiate or determine the sex organ.

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phallic stage

54
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condition of rivalry toward the father and incestuous feelings toward the mother

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male oedipus complex / oedipus complex

55
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fear of losing the penis

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castration anxiety

56
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the desire for sexual intercourse with the father and accompanying feelings of hostility for the mother

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female oedipus complex / electra complex

57
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girls become envious, feel cheated, and desire to have penis.

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penis envy

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If parental suppression is successful, children will repress their sexual drive and direct their psychic energy toward school, friendships, hobbies, and other nonsexual activities.

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latency stage

59
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puberty signals a reawakening of the sexual aim

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genital stage

60
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what was the primary goal of freud’s therapeutic techniques?

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to uncover repressed memories through free association and dream analysis.

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the purpose to arrive at the unconscious by starting with a present conscious idea and following it through a train of associations to wherever it leads.

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free association

62
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refers to the strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop toward their analyst during the course of treatment.

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transference

63
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permits patients to more or less relive childhood experiences within the nonthreatening climate of the analytic treatment.

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positive transference

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in the form of hostility must be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome any resistance to treatment

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negative transference

65
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refers to a variety of unconscious responses used by patients to block their own progress in therapy.

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resistance

66
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transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content.

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dream analysis

67
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the surface meaning or the conscious description given by the dreamer

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manifest content

68
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refers to its unconscious material

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latent content

69
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the manifest dream content isn’t as extensive as the latent level, indicating the unconscious material was condensed.

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condensation

70
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that the dream image is replaced by some other idea only remotely related to it

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displacement

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