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Theories Of Personality Freud
This deck covers key concepts and theories related to Freud's views on personality, including defense mechanisms, psychosexual development, and the structure of the mind.
Freud believed that ___ was a result of being seduced during childhood by a sexually mature person.
Hysteria
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Term
Definition
Freud believed that ___ was a result of being seduced during childhood by a sexually mature person.
Hysteria
Levels of mental life
Unconscious; Preconscious; Conscious
Unconscious processes originate from 2 sources:
Repression and phylogenetic endowment
Person who helped Freud treat hysteria through hypnotic technique
Jean-martian-charcot
Characterized by depression, neurosis, psychosomatic ailments, intense preoccupation with some form of creative activity
Creative illness
A defense mechanism where ego attempts to do away with unpleasant experiences and their consequences usually by means of repetitious ceremonial actions.
Undoing
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Freud believed that ___ was a result of being seduced during childhood by a sexually mature person. | Hysteria |
Levels of mental life | Unconscious; Preconscious; Conscious |
Unconscious processes originate from 2 sources: | Repression and phylogenetic endowment |
Person who helped Freud treat hysteria through hypnotic technique | Jean-martian-charcot |
Characterized by depression, neurosis, psychosomatic ailments, intense preoccupation with some form of creative activity | Creative illness |
A defense mechanism where ego attempts to do away with unpleasant experiences and their consequences usually by means of repetitious ceremonial actions. | Undoing |
A defense mechanism marked by obsessive thoughts and involves the ego’s attempt to isolate an experience by surrounding it with a blacked-out region of insensibility | Isolation |
2 sources of preconscious | Conscious perception and unconscious |
What age is superego established | 4-5 years of age |
Ego acts contrary to the moral standards of the superego | Guilt |
Ego unable to meet superego’s standard for perfection | Feelings of inferiority |
Instinct: amount of force exerted | Impetus |
Instinct: region of the body in a state of excitation or tension | Source |
Instinct: seek pleasure by removing excitation or reducing tension | Aim |
Instinct: person/thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied | Object |
Libido invested exclusively to the ego in children | Primary narcissism |
Redirect libido back to the libido and become preoccupied with personal appearances, interests | Secondary narcissism |
Develops when libido is invested on others | Love |
Second kind of love | Aim-inhibited |
Extreme type of projection | Paranoia |
Period in the anal phase where satisfaction received by destroying or losing objects | Early anal period |
Period in anal phase where interest stems from pleasure of defecating | Late anal period |
If too strict toilet training they will develop….and also the mode of narcissistic and masochistic pleasure | Anal character |
Anal triad | Stinginess, obstinacy and orderliness |
Dormant psychosexual development | - aim is to inhibit sexual drives | Latency period |
Direct libido outward | - reawaken sexual aim | Genital period |
Goal is to Strengthen ego, more independent from superego, widen field of perception and enlarge so that it can have appropriate fresh portions of Id | Psychoanalysis |
Unconscious material has been abbreviated before appearing on the manifest level | Condensation |
Dream image is replaced by some other idea only remotely related to it | Displacement |
State of being not aware or awake | Core consciousness |
State of being aware | Extended consciousness |
Instincts are… | Regressive (return prior state); conservative (conserve equilibrium if the organism); and repetition-compulsion (repeating states of excitation to being at rest or quiescence |
Oral dependent/receptive | Overgratified oral phase | Gullible, passive, attention seeking |
Oral sadistic/aggressive | Undergratified oral phase | Argue and exploit others |
Anal retentive | Overgratified anal phase | Stubborn, stingy, orderly, compulsively clean |
Undergratified; disorderly, messy, destructive, cruel | Anal expulsive |
Process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, idea | Cathexis |