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Week 3 Flashcards

1
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Explain how we are prisoners of our unconscious

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We can’t be blamed or held responsible for our behaviours or attitudes as they have been shaped by time and relationships that we have no control over.

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How has the influence of a century of psychoanalytic thought shaped our culture?

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It has created a self-centred, narcissistic culture that seeks therapy and cure for what are basic elements of human experience.

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3
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3 physical structures of psyche

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  1. ID.
  2. ego.
  3. superego
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Id

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Childlike, deviant.

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Ego (2)

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Negotiates between id and superego.

Social citizen responding and acting in the world.

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Superego

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Moral authority, conscience, shrieking internal parent figure, judgement, impossible to live up to.

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Eros/Libido (3)

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  • Pleasure drive; ‘libidinal reservoir’ - murky lake of desires and sexual needs.
  • narcissistic.
  • establish and maintain unities.
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Thanatos (3)

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  • Our desire to see the world burn, would rather die than spend another minute in it.
  • dissolve connections and thus destroy or consume things.
  • ultimate aim is to convert living into dead.
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Defence mechanisms

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The ways we protect ourselves by ‘spinning out intricate symbolic cobwebs’.

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10
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What are the 5 stages of psychosexual development?

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  1. Oral.
  2. Anal.
  3. Phallic.
  4. Latency.
  5. Genital.
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Oral stage (4)

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  • 0 -1 years.
  • pleasure centred around mouth - stems from breastfeeding.
  • id centred stage of development.
  • stunted at oral age - prefer oral sex.
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Anal stage (5)

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  • 1 - 3 years.
  • Pleasure centred around anal region.
  • Toilet training - gain control over bowel movements.
  • aggressive parents approach = prim, proper, cheap, neat people.
  • liberal approach = progressive, tolerant, left wing people.
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Phallic stage (4)

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  • 4 - 6 years.
  • pleasure around genitals.
  • Oedipus and Electra complexes.
  • always have some unresolved conflict from this stage.
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Oedipus and Electra complexes

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A desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a consequent sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex.
Electra = girls.

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Latency stage (3)

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  • 7 - 11 years.
  • period of sexual dormancy - develop non-sexual relations/friends.
  • Oedipus/Electra conflicts are sunk into consciousness.
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16
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Genital stage

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  • 12 - 18 years.
  • Puberty to adulthood; a new focus on genitals as biological maturity nears.
  • mature relationships, love and sex.
17
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Herbert Marcuses thoughts on psychonanalytic concepts

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All psychoanalytic concepts suggest that the external (cultural, social, political, economic, historical contexts) changes and shapes the internal (the physical): drives are malleable.

18
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Herbert Marcuses two principles

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  1. The pleasure principle.

2. The reality principle.

19
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The pleasure principle (4)

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  • immediate satisfaction.
  • pleasure.
  • joy (play).
  • receptiveness.
  • absence of repression.
20
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The reality principle (5)

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  • delayed satisfaction.
  • restraint of pleasure.
  • toil (work).
  • productiveness.
  • security.
21
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Freud - what does the unconscious consist of?

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Repressed desires ‘forgotten’ by the self.

22
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‘Self is barred access to …

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Unconscious forms of knowing, thinking and feeling through acts of repression.’

23
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What does the unconscious explain in terms of public life?

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Why our personal/public life is filled with anxiety, conflict and tension.

24
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Are culture/civilisation, superego/authority forces of repression?

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Yes!

25
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2 characteristics of unconscious

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  1. Wholly pleasure seeking.

2. Radically indifferent to reality, logic, contradiction, time.

26
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What does it mean the the unconscious is indifferent to contradiction?

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That beliefs, desires, wishes and impulses exist in the unconscious without contradiction - one can simultaneously love and hate parents, desire and loathe siblings, accept and reject friends.

27
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Christopher Lasch - what does the narcissist depend on?

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Others to validate self-esteem.

28
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Are narcissists normally extroverted or introverted?

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Extroverted.

29
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How can the insecurity of a narcissist be overcome?

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By seeing ‘his grandiose self’ reflected in the attention of others.

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