ToP Test 1 Flashcards
Defense Mechanisms
fight or flight in ego. Its unconsciously distorting reality to protect itself from reality. (Repression, denial, sublimation)
Archetypes
someone who has something similar to the emotional image that is being protected
Anima
feminine part of a man. It helps them be in a relationship and find self. It helps live life.
Animus
masculine in women. It helps women focus.
Self
organizing principle of the personality
Acorn theory
each life is formed by a unique image.
image - essence of that life, “destiny”
person’s daimon, an accompanying guide who resembles a calling
fate
Ego (Freud’s)
represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control
Superego
the part of the personality that represents conscious, morality, and social standards.
Adler’s Style of Life
Unique unconscious and repetitive way of responding to life
Jung’s Self concept
both conscious and unconscious. The individual is whole
Jung’s Shadow
Inferior being in ourselves.
What we don’t want to know about ourselves.
It has to be firmly grasped to achieve a state of wholeness.
Part of our unconscious.
Freud’s Id
our pleasure principle.
Seeks satisfaction through action
It doesn’t wait patiently and it doesn’t concern itself with social norms.
Adler’s Theory of Drives
there is a confluence of the drives
many coming together
human can transfer a drive into its opposite
Believes there is a drive for affection
Freud’s Theory of Drives
2 types of stimuli – internal and external.
External is beyond control
internal is repressed.
Electra Complex (Jung)
a child’s psycho-sexual competition and contained with her mother for the possession of her father
Oedipus complex (Freud)
is a conflict in which the boy wishes to possess his mother sexually and perceives his father as a rival in love
Adler’s individual psychology
offers a positive view of people
rests heavily on the belief of social interest
feeling of oneness with all humankind
people were being motivated primarily by social influences and by their strife toward success
person is responsible for who they are and who they become
belief that present behavior is shaped by people’s view of the future.
The child absorbed by the genius, a confusion which is understandable since the child has so few other powers and the daimon comes with so much. Then the child is set apart as exceptional, special, a prodigy-or as dysfunctional troublemaker, potentially a violent criminal, to be tested, diagnosed, and weeded out.
–James Hillman
Hillman discusses children who were completely out of control with their urges like the boy who just wanted to read and almost killed his sister. These children who are told that they are “different” rather than a parent raising them with a certain reverence might become so overcome by their genius that nothing else matters. The daimon can turn on anyone who ignores the urges so perhaps a proper attention directed toward the child’s gift might provide a healthy environment for his or her brilliance to come to light.
“A network of traits that have in common the feelings of powerlessness and smallness”
Inferiority Complex
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Personality
Saw the dream as a structural diagram of the human psyche, showing the collective unconscious below the personal unconscious
Carl Jung
The “mask” one shows to the world, protects the ego and adapts to social reality
Persona
Believed the principal problem of humanity was of relationship and the inability to make contact with others, his theories stressed the importance of social interest
Adler
According to Bettelheim Freud focused on this myth to discuss a commitment to self-knowledge and idea that we can never truly know ourselves
Oedipus Rex
His psychoanalytic perspective proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality
Sigmund Freud
A modern psychologist and founder of the school of archetypal psychology; his work seeks to bring critique to mainstream psychological theories.
James Hillman
The process of the development of the Self, a life-long process with the goal of personal wholeness
Individuation
inner guide that can make the body ill, often forces deviance and wants to be seen and acknowledged by the person who is its caretaker
Daimon
Freud’s idea of psychosexual energy
Libido
A method of dream interpretation that includes looking at the cultural, mythological, and technical associations behind an image
Amplification
a failure to move forward from one stage to another as expected can occur due to excessive gratification or frustration during a particular stage.
Fixation
how one subordinates drives, needs to their patterns of existence as social beings and is the goal that beckons and becomes “the guiding force in life”
Style of Life
The person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Free Association
Organ Identity
Least or most poorly developed organ succumbs fastest to environmental demands. Disease only strikes such predisposed organs.
Aggressive Drive
Hostile attitude to perceived
Organ Inferiority
Least or most poorly developed organ succumbs fastest to environmental demands. Disease strikes only such predisposed organs
Agressive Drive
Hostile attitude toward perceived helplessness in obtaining satisfactions. May be reversed into an opposite drive of humility or submission.
Masculine Protest
Every child desires to be competent, to be superior, and in control of their own life. Overcompensation to be “manly” and admired results.
Superiority Striving
Inherent biological urge toward self-expansion, growth, and competence.
Perfection Striving
Seeking after a chosen goal, or dream, fulfillment. Based on subjective or fictional estimates of life’s values.
Adler’s Changing Views Chart
- Organ Inferiority
- Aggressive Drive
- Masculine Protest
- Superiority Striving
- Perfection Striving
