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
