Sigmund Freud Flashcards
Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness yet can still motivate most of our words, feelings, and actions.
Unconscious
a particularly rich source of unconscious material.
Dreams
Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.
Preconscious
(2 sources of preconscious: conscious
perception and the unconscious)
All those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time; Plays a relatively minor role in the psychoanalytic theory.
Conscious
The core of personality; Has no contact with reality; Serves the pleasure principle; Amoral, not immoral.
Id
The only region of the mind in contact with reality; Serves the reality principle.
Ego
Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality; Guided by the moralistic and idealistic principle.
Superego
tells us what we should not do; rooted from experiences with punishments for improper behavior.
Conscience
tells us what we should do; rooted from experiences with rewards for proper behavior.
Ego-ideal
it is the result when the ego acts or intends to act contrary to the superego; it is therefore a function of conscience.
Guilt
arises when the ego is unable to meet the superego’s standards of perfection; it is therefore a function of the ego-ideal.
Feelings of inferiority
From the German word Trieb or a drive or a stimulus within the person. it cannot be avoided through flight because it is internal.
Drives
sex/life impulses.
Eros
aggression/distraction/death impulses.
Thanatos
sex drive or sexual psychic energy.
Libido
the amount of force the drive exerts (e.g., intensity of hunger).
Impetus
the region of the body where the drive originates; the body part in a state of excitation or tension (e.g., stomach).
Source
to seek pleasure by removing the excitation or tension (e.g., to eat).
Aim
the person or thing which can satisfy the aim (e.g., food).
Object
Ultimate aim is the reduction of sexual tension. Freud believed that the entire body is invested with libido.
Sex
the parts of the body that can produce sexual pleasure (such as the genitals, the mouth, and the anus).
Erogenous zones
Involves redirecting unacceptable urges to a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is disguised or concealed.
Displacement
Occurs when the ego remains at the present, more comfortable psychological stage because the prospect of taking the next step in psychological growth becomes too anxiety provoking.
Fixation
Involves reverting back to an earlier developmental stage due to stress and anxiety felt during a given stage of development.
Regression
Involves attributing the unwanted impulse to an external object, usually another person.
Projection
It is when people incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego. People integrate characteristics that they see as valuable and that will permit them to feel better about themselves.
Introjection
The only defense mechanism that helps both the individual and the society. aims can be expressed in obviously creative accomplishments such as art, music, and literature.
Sublimation
THE PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
(in order, with age and erogenous zone)
Oral (birth-2 yrs), mouth
Anal (2-3 yrs), anus
Phallic (4-6 yrs), genitals
Latency (7-Puberty), dormant
Genital (Puberty onwards), genitals
apprehension about an unknown danger; results from the interaction of the ego with the id;
Neurotic anxiety
stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego;
Moral anxiety
anxiety- closely related to fear; an unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger; differ from fear in that it does not involve a specific fearful object.
Realistic anxiety
