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The Encapsulated Self (Ego) of Freud's Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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Conscious is …

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Aware

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Subconscious is..

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Unaware

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Precounsiousness

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Semi-Aware

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Cathartic Method

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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

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Psychoanalysis

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

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Oedipus Complex

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

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Freudian Slips

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Unconsiously motivated “accidents” which reveal underlying truths about personality

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Neurological Model

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

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Topographic (levels) Model

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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

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Unconscious

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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

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Preconscious

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“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

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Instincts

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Inborn biological drive that bridge the gap between body & mind

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Conscious

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Normal awareness

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Tripartite (Tri-3) Model

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Ego, Superego, Id

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

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Tripartite (Tri-3) Model: Agency

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Structure

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

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Tripartite (Tri-3) Model: The Net Effect

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

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Id

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Pleasure principle

NOT conscious

Biological, born w/ it

Primary Source of Psychic energy seat of instincts organization

Home to sexual & aggressive drive

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Ego

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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

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Superego

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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

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What are the AGENTS?

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Id
Ego
Superego

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What makes a person GROW?

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Libido

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

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What makes a person GO?

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

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Economic Model: The Libido Distribution

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Sexual energy

Source of motivation

Instincts & drives

  • Pleasure: life instincts
  • Aggressive: death instincts
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Freud & humor

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Society suppresses free expression of aggression & sexuality

Jokes are prohibited to have a temporary lifting of inhibitions

Laughing louder to relieve tensions

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Economic Model: The Libido Distribution: 4 Components of Instinct

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  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
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Freud: Personality Development

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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

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Fixation

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

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Regression

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

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Erogenous Zones

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

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Freud’s Genetic Model

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Fixation

Regression

Erogenous Zones

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