UNIT II Flashcards
Freud conceptualized
personality structure as having three components:
*id
*ego
*superego
is the part of one’s nature that reflects basic or innate desires such as pleasure-seeking behavior, aggression, and sexual
impulses.
id
is the part of a person’s nature that reflects moral and ethical concepts, values, and parental and social expectations; therefore, it is in direct opposition to the id.
superego
represents mature and adaptive behavior that allows a person to function successfully in the world.
Ego
Freud believed that the human personality functions at three levels of awareness:
*Conscious
*Preconscious
*Unconscious
refers to the perceptions, thoughts, and emotions that exist in the person’s awareness, such as being aware of happy feelings or thinking about a loved one.
Conscious
thoughts and emotions are not currently in the person’s awareness, but he or she can recall them with some effort
Preconscious
is the realm of thoughts and feelings that motivates a person even though he or she is totally unaware of them.
unconscious
This realm includes most defense
mechanisms and some instinctual drives or
motivations.
unconscious
According to Freud’s theories, the person represses the memory of traumatic events that are too painful to remember into the
Unconscious
a primary technique used in psychoanalysis, involves discussing a client’s dreams to discover their true
meaning and significance.
Dream Analysis
Another method used to gain access to subconscious thoughts and feelings
is
Free Association
which are methods of attempting to protect the self and cope with basic drives or emotionally painful thoughts, feelings, or events.
Ego Defense Mechanism
occurs when the client displaces onto the therapist’s attitudes and feelings that the client originally experienced in other relationships
Transference
occurs when the therapist displaces onto the client attitudes or feelings from his or her past.
Countertransference
focuses on discovering the causes of the client’s unconscious and repressed thoughts, feelings, and conflicts believed to cause anxiety and on helping the client gain insight into and resolve these conflicts and
anxieties.
Psychoanalysis
