Sigmund Freud part 3

Question 1

What is Freud’s definition of Anxiety?

Answer 1

The feeling of helplessness following birth is the basis of all subsequent feelings of anxiety

Question 2

Define realistic anxiety

Answer 2

the basic fear from the physical world

Question 3

Define moral anxiety

Answer 3

Fear of punishment from the internalized social world of the Superego

Question 4

Define Neurotic anxiety

Answer 4

The fear that one will be punished externally for impulsive actions

Question 5

What do we use to terminate thoughts or actions that cause anxiety?

Answer 5

Ego-defense mechanisms

Question 6

Define the ego defense mechanism of Denial

Answer 6

refusing to recognize objective events in conscious awareness

Question 7

Define the ego defense mechanism of repression

Answer 7

Being unable to reflect or remember past events or impulses

Question 8

Define the ego defense mechanism of Displacement

Answer 8

Redirecting stress from original target to someone/something else

Question 9

Define the ego defense mechanism of Projection

Answer 9

Attributing personally undesirable thoughts and/ or feelings to others

Question 10

Define the ego defense mechanism of Rationalization

Answer 10

Making excuses by distorting the threatening facts

Question 11

Define the ego defense mechanism of reaction formation

Answer 11

Transforming unacceptable thoughts or urges into their exact opposite

Question 12

Define the ego defense mechanism of intellectualization

Answer 12

Detaching emotion from a taxing experience by analyzing it

Question 13

Define the ego defense mechanism of sublimation

Answer 13

Channeling unacceptable impulses into positive behaviour or artistic forms of expression

Question 14

Define the ego defense mechanism of Regression

Answer 14

During a time of stress, reverting back to an earlier stage of development when life was presumably simpler

Question 15

Define free association

Answer 15

The patient says whatever comes to mind, and the doctor listens to recognize defenses, resistance, and symptoms as self-punishment

Question 16

Define catharsis

Answer 16

Emotional relief that results from a person pondering a pathogenic idea consciously

Question 17

Define resitance

Answer 17

patient’s unwillingness to ponder and report anxiety producing thoughts

Question 18

Define working through

Answer 18

by talking, examining, and re-examining the ways in which the patient resists treatment by unconsciously trying to obstruct or divert the analysis

Question 19

Define transference

Answer 19

Phenomenon where a patient begins to respond to the therapist as if he/she were an important person in the patient’s life such as the patient’s mother or father

Question 20

Define counter-transference

Answer 20

Phenomenon that sometimes occurs during therapy in which the therapist becomes emotionally involved with the patient

Question 21

What did Freud see as the main vehicle of healing?

Answer 21

Transference neurosis

Question 22

Define parapaxes

Answer 22

clues for the unconscious conflicts

Question 23

Define Eros

Answer 23

The life instincts

Question 24

Define libido

Answer 24

the motivational or psychic energy of the eros

Question 25

Define Thanatos

Answer 25

The “death” instinct, to return to a place of non-struggle