Week 5 Flashcards
What are the three regions of Freud’s topographical model
Conscious, pre-conscious (ordinary memory… the name of my aunt) and unconscious
What are the 4 features of the ID?
1 source of all energy
2 follows the pleasure principle
3 exists only in the unconscious
4 uses primary-process thinking (primitive and seperate from reality)
Why does the ego develop?
Because the ID ignores the demands of the external world. You can’t adapt if all you want to do is fuck and kill
What are the three features of the ego?
1 reality principle (the demands of the social world and the reality of behaviour required to adapt to it)
2 operates in all three regions of the mind - conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious
3 uses secondary-process (reality based) thought
How is the superego established?
Rules established by reward and punishment by the parents
What are the two facets of the superego?
Ego ideal - standard of moral perfection
Conscience - the representation of behaviours that are considered bad
Which is the manager of the ID, Ego or superego?
The ego - it works on the reality principle and must mediate the superego and the ID.
What are the two impulses of the ID
Life instincts - fucking and self-preservation
Death instincts - self-destructive and may manifest as agression
What is catharsis?
The emotional release resulting from the release of an impulse
What are the three anxieties in F’s theory?
Reality anxiety - real threats
Neurotic anxiety - fear ID impulses will get out of control
Moral anxiety - fear of violating the superego
What is the basic defence mechanism?
Repression - pushing ID impulses down
Projection?
Attributing an unacceptable impulse to someone else
Rationalisation
Developing rational but incorrect explanations of your actions
Intellectualisation
Separating thoughts from feelings and allowing the thoughts but not feelings to be in awareness
Displacement
Shifting an impulse from one target to another usually a safer one
Sex has been a displacement for failure for me
What are the 5 psychosexual stages?
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
Parapraxes
Freudian penis, I mean slips
What are the two contents of dreams?
Manifest content - plot
Latent content - determinants of the dream, many of which are unconscious
What is a formal way to investigate the unconscious?
Projective identification techniques
Rorschach test
Structural model?
I’d ego superego
What is the ID driven by?
The pleasure principle
What process does the ID use?
Primary process (unconscious conjuring of image of need satisfaction - bottle/breast for a hungry baby etc.)
What does the primarily process serve in Freud’s structural model?
Wish fulfilment
What principle does the ego follow?
The reality principle
What is reality testing?
The ego mediating the ID and the external world
Is the ego moral?
No, the ego would let loose the pleasure principle, the only function of the ego is self-protection
What is the development of the superego called?
Introjection
What are the three goals of the superego
Prevent -ID impulse that would be frowned upon by parents
Act morally rather than rationally
Strive for perfection
What does Freud call the ID energy?
Instinct and drive
What does the hydrologic model refer to?
The relationship between drives that build up and need release. If not realised they will continue to increase in pressure
Eros
Life and sexual instincts
Thanatos
Death instincts
What is agression in relation to the death drive?
If Eros thwarts the death drive energy it is released as agression
What is the difference between repression and denial
Repression - defends against threats from inside the mind (thoughts that challenge the ego/superego)
Denial - threats from everywhere else.
Displacement
Targeting the dangerous urge somewhere safer I.e. I’m angry at my professor so I target it at my understanding boyfriend.
Sublimation
Expressing an unwanted thought/impulse in an acceptable form - art, music,
