Textbook Chapter 3 Flashcards
Freud
Austrian neurologist
first acknowledged personality theorist
his work has changed the thinking of psychologists, writers, parents, and laypeople even today
example of Freudian theory in common speech
“I must’ve done that unconsciously”
^idea that sometimes what we do is influenced by unconscious forces
Freudian terms in our language
Freudian slips
denial
libido
repression
Freud was first interested in…
hypnosis
worked under Charcot and Breuer
they used hypnosis to aid physiological and hysterical symptoms
hysteria
disorder consisting of various physical symptoms
ie. blindness, deafness, inability to walk or use an arm
Anna O
set direction of Freud’s career
had hysterical symptoms:
- paralyzed left arm
- hallucinations
- could only speak in English even though native tongue was German
under hypnosis, she’d talk about daydreams and hallucinations and past trauma ie. her dying father
after her session, paralysis was gone and she could speak German again
although Freud used hypnosis to treat Anna O…
Freud became disillusioned with it
discovered that even without hypnosis, under certain circumstances, patients could describe PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN MATERIAL seemingly related to cause/cure of their hysterical symptoms
birth of free association
after Anna O
Freud realized that even without hypnosis
under certain circumstances
patients could describe previously hidden material seemingly related to the CAUSE/CURE of their hysterical symptoms
many memories discovered under free association are…
sexually traumatic
because many memories Freud first discovered via free association were sexually traumatic, Freud concluded…
EARLY SEXUAL EXPERIENCES were responsible for hysterical symptoms
did Freud’s ideas about sexuality do well?
not at first
Victorian Europe was scandalized by his focus on infantile sexuality and omnipresent sexual motives
gradually his ideas gained support and international recognition
divisions in Freud’s topographic model
conscious
preconscious
unconscious
topographic model: conscious
thoughts you’re currently aware of
material changes constantly as new thoughts enter your mind and as others pass out of awareness
only a tiny percentage of your mind
topographic model: preconscious
stuff currently not on your mind but that you could recall
ie. your mom’s phone number, what you had for breakfast, your fav high school teacher
large body of retrievable info
topographic model: unconscious
vast majority of thoughts
most important to psychoanalysis
material to which you have no immediate access
can’t bring unconscious thoughts into consciousness except under extreme situations
but is responsible for much of your everyday behaviour
is the basis of “abnormal behaviour”
Freud’s structural model components
divides personality into:
id
ego
superego
id
at birth, only the id is present
the selfish part of you
id is only concerned with
satisfying personal desires
id acts based on the _________ principle
pleasure
pleasure principle
what the id acts on
id is only concerned with what brings IMMEDIATE PERSONAL SATISFACTION
regardless of physical or social limitations
id impulses are event present, but…
are held in check by the other parts of healthy adult personality
what does the id use to satisfy what it wants?
wish fulfillment
wish fulfillment
ie. “if a baby is hungry and doesn’t see food nearby, the id imagines the food and thereby at least temporarily satisfies the need”
id impulses center on themes of…
sexuality
aggression