Sigmund Freud

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The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character.

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Personality

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The part of the mind that’s inaccessible to the conciliatory mind but affects behaviour and emotions.

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Unconscious

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Information that is not currently conscious, but is retrievable into conscious awareness.

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Preconscious

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A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

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Free Association

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The process by which (according to Freud) incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.

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Identification

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Emphasizes environmental influences on observable behaviours.

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Behavioural Persepctive

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The technique of treating disorders by analyzing unconscious.

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Psychoanalysis

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The instinctual drives that (according to Freud) supply psychic energy to personality. (Pleasure)

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ID

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The ID’s demand for immediate gratification.

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Pleasure Principle

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The largely conscious “executive” part of personality that (according to Freud) meditates between the demands of the demands of the ID and Superego and reality.

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Ego

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A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage.

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Fixation

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Builds on Freud’s ideas that behaviour arises from unconscious drives and conflicts, many of which may stem from childhood experiences.

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Psychoanalytic Perspective

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The Ego’s tendency to satisfy the ID’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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Reality Principle

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The part of personality (according to Freud) that represents internalized ideas, thus providing standards for judgement (conscience) and for future aspirations. The “moral” thing to do.

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Superego

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The developmental stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital) during which (according to Freud), the ID’s pleasure-seeking energies are focus on different erogenous zones.

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Psychosexual Stages

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The 3-5 or 6 year old child’s sexual desires toward the parent of the other sex and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival parent of the same sex.

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Oedipus Complex

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In psychoanalytical theory, the Ego’s methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Defence Mechanisms

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Protecting oneself from an unpleasant reality by refusing to perceive it. Ex: bad test, death, etc.

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Denial

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Unconsciously preventing painful thoughts or dangerous thoughts from entering awareness. Ex: actually forgetting an event.

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Repression

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Substituting a different target for impulses when the original would be dangerous or unacceptable. Ex: when someone is angry at another word on but takes it out on you.

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Displacement

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Attributing one’s own feelings, short comings, or unacceptable impulses on others. Ex: your crush gives you and your whole class valentines, but you think they really like you back because of that. They don’t though.

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Projection

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Preventing dangerous impulses from being expressed in behaviour by exaggerating opposite behaviour. Ex: friend cancels plans and you’re angry but decide to say it’s okay and that you didn’t want to anyways.

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Reaction Formation

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Retreating to an earlier level of development or to earlier, less demanding habits or situations. Ex: storming up to room after feud.

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Regression

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Justifying your behaviour by giving reasonable and “rational,” but false, reasons for it.

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Rationalization

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Working off desires, or unacceptable impulses, in activities that are constructive.

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Sublimation

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Counteracting real or imagined weaknesses by emphasizing desirable trait or seeking to excel in the weakness or other areas. Ex: you suck at math but give it 110% just to be good at it and pass your test.

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Compensation

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All Stages of Psychosexual Development

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, and Genital