THOP2 Flashcards
- He helped Josef Breuer in
treating Anna O of her hysteria
through psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
- contains all those drives, urges, or
instincts that are beyond our
awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of
our words, feelings, and actions.
- contains all those drives, urges, or
Unconscious
Freud believed that a portion of our unconscious
originates from the experiences of our early
ancestors that have been passed on to us through
hundreds of generations of repetition. He called
these inherited unconscious images our
____
phylogenetic endowment
LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE
PRECONSCIOUS
-The_____ of the mind contains
all those elements that are not conscious but
can become conscious either quite readily or
with some difficulty
preconscious level
LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE
-those mental elements in awareness at any
given point in time. It is the only level of mental life directly
available to us.
CONSCIOUS
PROVINCES OF THE MIND
has no contact with reality, yet it strives constatnly to reduce tension by satisfying basic desires. Because its sole function is to see pleasure, we say that the — serves the pleasure principle.
- is primitive, chaotic, inaccessible to consciousness, unchangeable, amoral, illogical, unorganized, and filled with energy received from basic drives and discharged for the satisfaction of the pleasure principle.
- core of personality
ID -
PROVINCES OF THE MIND
- is the only region of the mind in contact with reality.
- it is governed by the reality principle which it tries to substitute for the pleasure principle of the id. As the sole region of the mind in contact with the external world, the ego beomes the decision-making or executive branch of personality.
EGO (I)
PROVINCES OF THE MIND
- represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality, and is guided by the moralistic and idealistic principles as opposed to the pleasure principle of the id and the realistic principle of the ego.
SUPEREGO
2 subsystems of SUPEREGO
1) what we should not do
Conscience -
2 subsystems of SUPEREGO
2) what we should do
Ego-ideal -
operate as a constant motivational force. As an internal stimulus, these differ from external
stimuli in that they cannot be avoided through flight.
Drives -
The aim of ____ is pleasure, but this pleasure is not limited to genital satisfaction.
Freud believed that the entire body is invested with libido.
Sex - sexual drive
The aim of the ____, according to Freud, is to return the organism
to an inorganic state.
Aggression - destructive drive
Freud called all the psychic energy that drove the life and death instincts the ___
“libido.”
Freud emphasized that it is a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a
physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger. The unpleasantness is often vague
and hard to pinpoint, but the its always felt.
Anxiety -
3 TYPES OF ANXIETY
is defined as apprehension about an unknown danger
Neurotic Anxiety -
3 TYPES OF ANXIETY
stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego. After children establish a
superego—usually by the age of 5 or 6—they may experience anxiety as an outgrowth of the conflict
between realistic needs and the dictates of their superego.
Moral Anxiety
3 TYPES OF ANXIETY
is closely related to fear. It is defined as an unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving
a possible danger.
Realistic Anxiety