Week 5 Flashcards

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1
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What are the three regions of Freud’s topographical model

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Conscious, pre-conscious (ordinary memory… the name of my aunt) and unconscious

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What are the 4 features of the ID?

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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)

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3
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Why does the ego develop?

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Because the ID ignores the demands of the external world. You can’t adapt if all you want to do is fuck and kill

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What are the three features of the ego?

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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

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5
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How is the superego established?

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Rules established by reward and punishment by the parents

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6
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What are the two facets of the superego?

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Ego ideal - standard of moral perfection
Conscience - the representation of behaviours that are considered bad

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Which is the manager of the ID, Ego or superego?

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The ego - it works on the reality principle and must mediate the superego and the ID.

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What are the two impulses of the ID

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Life instincts - fucking and self-preservation

Death instincts - self-destructive and may manifest as agression

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9
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What is catharsis?

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The emotional release resulting from the release of an impulse

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What are the three anxieties in F’s theory?

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Reality anxiety - real threats
Neurotic anxiety - fear ID impulses will get out of control
Moral anxiety - fear of violating the superego

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11
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What is the basic defence mechanism?

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Repression - pushing ID impulses down

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Projection?

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Attributing an unacceptable impulse to someone else

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13
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Rationalisation

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Developing rational but incorrect explanations of your actions

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Intellectualisation

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Separating thoughts from feelings and allowing the thoughts but not feelings to be in awareness

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Displacement

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Shifting an impulse from one target to another usually a safer one

Sex has been a displacement for failure for me

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16
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What are the 5 psychosexual stages?

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

17
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Parapraxes

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Freudian penis, I mean slips

18
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What are the two contents of dreams?

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Manifest content - plot

Latent content - determinants of the dream, many of which are unconscious

19
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What is a formal way to investigate the unconscious?

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Projective identification techniques

Rorschach test

20
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Structural model?

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I’d ego superego

21
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What is the ID driven by?

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The pleasure principle

22
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What process does the ID use?

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Primary process (unconscious conjuring of image of need satisfaction - bottle/breast for a hungry baby etc.)

23
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What does the primarily process serve in Freud’s structural model?

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Wish fulfilment

24
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What principle does the ego follow?

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The reality principle

25
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What is reality testing?

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The ego mediating the ID and the external world

26
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Is the ego moral?

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No, the ego would let loose the pleasure principle, the only function of the ego is self-protection

27
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What is the development of the superego called?

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Introjection

28
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What are the three goals of the superego

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Prevent -ID impulse that would be frowned upon by parents

Act morally rather than rationally

Strive for perfection

29
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What does Freud call the ID energy?

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Instinct and drive

30
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What does the hydrologic model refer to?

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The relationship between drives that build up and need release. If not realised they will continue to increase in pressure

31
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Eros

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Life and sexual instincts

32
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Thanatos

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Death instincts

33
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What is agression in relation to the death drive?

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If Eros thwarts the death drive energy it is released as agression

34
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What is the difference between repression and denial

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Repression - defends against threats from inside the mind (thoughts that challenge the ego/superego)

Denial - threats from everywhere else.

35
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Displacement

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Targeting the dangerous urge somewhere safer I.e. I’m angry at my professor so I target it at my understanding boyfriend.

36
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Sublimation

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Expressing an unwanted thought/impulse in an acceptable form - art, music,