Sigmund Freud Flashcards
What is Sigmund Freud’s ethnicity?
He is Austrian, born in Vienna
Stuff about His childhood
- His father was 20 years older than his mother
- His father had a mistress
- Lived with children from 3 different women as a child
- At one time lived with 8 children in a 30by 30 apartment
- 5) As a child he observed much human sexuality.
6) Became a Medical Doctor, but saw sickness as developing psychologically.
What is Psychodynamics?
approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of the psychological forces that underlie human behaviours relates to early experiences
- focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings.
I- especially interested in the dynamic relations
between conscious motivation and unconscious motivation.
Unconscious
Information processing in our mind that we are not aware of
According to Freud, holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories
According to Jung, includes memories, instincts, and experiences
Conscious
Information we are always aware of
Performs the thinking/processing when we take in new information
Psychoanalytic Theory
Based on idea that all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and that childhood experiences influence the unconscious mind throughout life
What are the 3 distinct parts of human consciousness
Ego, ID, and superego
Ego
Freud’s term for the rational part of the mind
Operates on the reality principle: ability of the mind to assess the reality of the external world, and to act upon it accordingly
ID
Freud’s term for the instinctual part of the mind
Operates on the pleasure principle: drive to fulfill our most basic and primitive urges, including hunger, thirst, anger, sex, etc…
Superego
- Freud’s term for the moral centre of the mind
internalized ideals that we have acquired from our - parents and society
- suppresses the urges of the id
- tries to make the ego behave morally, rather than
realistically.
Ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety or external pressures
Defense Mechanism
What is a Defense Mechanisms
Positive or negative ways to deal with negative feelings.
Protecting negative feelings from the EGO (reality)
Free association:
The patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind regardless of how silly or embarrassing. Patients would often project their feelings onto the therapist, thus allowing them to gain insight into their current relationships/situations
(this also reveals the unconscious mind)
