The Encapsulated Self (Ego) of Freud's Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Conscious is …

Answer 1

Aware

Question 2

Subconscious is..

Answer 2

Unaware

Question 3

Precounsiousness

Answer 3

Semi-Aware

Question 4

Cathartic Method

Answer 4

Encouraging patient to discharge tension or anxiety by taking it out.

Whatever you do to make you feel better in times of anxiety or tension is cathartic

Question 5

Psychoanalysis

Answer 5

Treatment method conceived by Freud for the alleviation of emotional problems.

Question 6

Oedipus Complex

Answer 6

The core assertion in psychoanalytic theory that the little boy wishes to sexually posses his mother and replace his father

Question 7

Freudian Slips

Answer 7

Unconsiously motivated “accidents” which reveal underlying truths about personality

Question 8

Neurological Model

Answer 8

Purely scientific, 3 components (1) Phi Neurons (2) Psi Neurons (3) Omega neurons

Question 9

Topographic (levels) Model

Answer 9

Conscious - aware

Unconscious - largest part of your mind that is repressed. Impulses, emotional conflicts, painful memories.
*These are only indirectly accessible through slips or free associations

Preconscious

Question 10

Unconscious

Answer 10

Hidden thoughts & desires

Largest part of your mind that is repressed:
Impulses
Emotional conflicts
Painful memories.

*These are only indirectly accessible through slips or free associations

Question 11

Preconscious

Answer 11

“Twilight zone”

At any given moment you are not thinking about something, but could. These are not emotions or actions that you try to keep out of awareness, but simply become automatic.

Easily brought to consciousness

Question 12

Instincts

Answer 12

Inborn biological drive that bridge the gap between body & mind

Question 13

Conscious

Answer 13

Normal awareness

Question 14

Tripartite (Tri-3) Model

Answer 14

Ego, Superego, Id

Personality as a fusion of forces that blend and merge into each other.

Question 15

Tripartite (Tri-3) Model: Agency

Answer 15

Structure

Each is described as if feelings, motives and wishes, blindspots and goals of its own

Question 16

Tripartite (Tri-3) Model: The Net Effect

Answer 16

Personality is compromised of three loosely partitioned subsystems each powered by biological forces

Question 17

Id

Answer 17

Pleasure principle

NOT conscious

Biological, born w/ it

Primary Source of Psychic energy seat of instincts organization

Home to sexual & aggressive drive

Question 18

Ego

Answer 18

Reality Principle

Conscious, unconscious and preconscious levels

Carries out thinking, planning meditating

Psychological

Develops in childhood, before the superego

Acts as REFEREE between Id & Superego

Has contact w/ external world of reality

Executive: Governs, controls & regulates personality

Question 19

Superego

Answer 19

Home to morality & consiousness

Conflict with Id

Makes you feel guilty

Society/reality: what society wishes you could be

Develops in childhood

Governed by EGO IDEAL: what you WANT to be

Question 20

What are the AGENTS?

Answer 20

Id
Ego
Superego

Question 21

What makes a person GROW?

Answer 21

Libido

Not simply sex drive, but a wider array of life insitincts or forces

Question 22

What makes a person GO?

Answer 22

Biological determinism is strong: Infants pass through similar stages and libido is distributed differently for each person as are defense mechanisms

Question 23

Economic Model: The Libido Distribution

Answer 23

Sexual energy

Source of motivation

Instincts & drives

• Pleasure: life instincts
• Aggressive: death instincts

Question 24

Freud & humor

Answer 24

Society suppresses free expression of aggression & sexuality

Jokes are prohibited to have a temporary lifting of inhibitions

Laughing louder to relieve tensions

Question 25

Economic Model: The Libido Distribution: 4 Components of Instinct

Answer 25

1. Source: Physical deficiency
2. Aim: To remove bodily deficiency
3. Object: Has the capability of fulfilling the need
4. Impetus: Measure of how URGENTLY the organism seeks gratification

Question 26

Freud: Personality Development

Answer 26

We must successfully pass through psychosexual stages. Each stage focuses on how we receive pleasure

Failure to pass through a stage leads to fixation. In times of stress we REGRESS to that stage

Question 27

Fixation

Answer 27

When too much of libido is invested @ one particular psychosexual stage, making advancement to higher levels of psychological achievement difficult

Question 28

Regression

Answer 28

Slipping backward & becoming stuck again @ earlier stage that had previously been left behind

Question 29

Erogenous Zones

Answer 29

An are of the body where the libido is concentrated & where gratification is more likely to occur

Question 30

Freud’s Genetic Model

Answer 30

Fixation

Regression

Erogenous Zones