Unit 2 Chapter 2: Freud Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud identified three levels of mental life, what were they?

Answer 1

-unconscious,
-preconscious
-conscious.

Question 2

What makes up the unconscious?

Answer 2

Early childhood experiences that create high levels of anxiety are repressed into the unconscious, where they may influence behavior, emotions, and attitudes for years.

Question 3

What are some of the characteristics to remember about the unconscious?

Answer 3

1) Unconcscious does not mean dormant or inactive
2) Unconscious thoughts often strive towards being conscious and succeed albeit in a different form

Question 4

What makes up the preconscious?

Answer 4

Events that are not associated with anxiety but are merely forgotten make up the contents of the preconscious.

Question 5

What makes up the conscious?

Answer 5

Conscious images are those in awareness at any given time.

Question 6

What are the three provinces of the mind?

Answer 6

Id
Ego
Super ego

Question 7

What is the id?

Answer 7

The id is unconscious, chaotic, out of contact with reality, and in service of the pleasure principle.

It is amoral and seeks pleasure without knowledge of what is real. (video games feel like progress but they aren’t and the id doesn’t care)

Question 8

What is the pleasure principle?

Answer 8

The id’s move to always attempt to satisfy base desires

Question 9

What is the ego?

Answer 9

The ego is the executive of personality, in contact with the real world, and in service of the reality principle.

(is concerned with “what is possible)

“It is the only regiion of the mind in contact with reality and has to make decisions that account for all regions of the mind as well as reality”

The ego has no strength of its own and can be compared to a persn riding a horse, you can train it and guide it but are ultimately at the mercy of the animal.

Question 10

What is the super ego?

Answer 10

The superego serves the moral and idealistic principles and begins to form after the Oedipus complex is resolved.

(Is concerned with what is “proper”)

Guilt is the result when the ego acts—or even intends to act—contrary to the moral standards of the superego

he superego, however, is like the id in that it is completely ignorant of, and unconcerned with, the practicability of its requirements. “The super ego is not concerned with the happiness of the ego”

Answer 11

All motivation can be traced to sexual and aggressive drives.

Question 12

What are the four parts that make up a drive? Explain them.

Answer 12

Impetus, -the amount of force it exerts;
Source, -its source is the region of the body in a state of excitation or tension
Aim, -its aim is to seek pleasure by removing that excitation or reducing the tension
Object; -is the person or thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied

Answer 13

Childhood behaviors related to sex and aggression are often punished, which leads to either repression or anxiety.

Answer 14

To protect itself against anxiety, the ego initiates various defense mechanisms, the most basic of which is repression.

Question 15

Freud outlined three major stages of development—what are they?

Answer 15

infancy, latency, and a genital period—but he devoted most attention to the infantile stage.

Question 16

The infantile stage is divided into three substages—what are they?

Answer 16

oral, anal, and phallic, the last of which is accompanied by the Oedipus complex.

Question 17

What is the oedipal omplex?

Answer 17

During the simple Oedipal stage, a child desires sexual union with one parent while harboring hostility for the other.

Question 18

What is a Freudian slip?

Answer 18

Freud believed that dreams and Freudian slips are disguised means of expressing unconscious impulses.

Question 19

What is the difference between Freud’s Phylogenic endowment and Carl Jung’s Collective unconcious?

Answer 19

Freud relied on his theory only as a last resort after all other approaches that focused on the individual would not work while Jung emphasized his theory at the forefront.

Question 20

What are the three types of anxieties and which one is each in conflict with?

Answer 20

Realistic-objective danger
Neurotic-conflict between the ego and id
Moral-conflict between ego and super ego

Question 21

What are defence mechanism supposed to do?

Answer 21

Protect eh ego from anxiety

Question 22

What are the 7 primary defence mechanisms according to Freud?

Answer 22

repression, reaction formation, displacement, fixation, regression, projection, introjection, and sublimation

Question 23

Describe reaction formation

Answer 23

adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form.

Question 24

Describe displacement

Answer 24

it’s the same as a reaction formation except put onto any other object or person and not as exaggerated. (ie taking work out on your family)

Question 25

Describe fixation

Answer 25

Technically, fixation is the permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier, more primitive stage of development

Question 26

Describe regression

Answer 26

Once the libido has passed a developmental stage, it may, during times of stress and anxiety, revert back to that earlier stage.

Question 27

Describe projection

Answer 27

This is the Mr. Garrison thing.

Paranoia is an extreme version of projection

Question 28

Desccribe introjection

Answer 28

People introject characteristics that they see as valuable and that will permit them to feel better about themselves.

(copying people on tv-opposite of projection)

Question 29

Describe sublimation

Answer 29

It’s the one where you chanel your impulses into something socially or culturally acceptable like art, music etc

Question 30

Describe the latency period

Answer 30

This is when sexual suppression begins to take place and where succesful suppression leads to infants investing their energies into social or productive outlets

Question 31

Describe the genital period

Answer 31

Adolecence. Reproduction is now possible, the vagina is no longer a trauma source for either sex and sexual drives are able to be turned outwards towards other objects

Question 32

What is the difference between negative and positive tranfereance?

Answer 32

positive transference is when the client starts to build a parent-child relationship with the therapist and can be used as a way of moving through old childhood trauams in a safe place

Negative transference is when the patient starts to resist the flows of the unconsciou which is usually a good sign that the therapy has moved beyond the superficial