Psychoanalytic therapy

• libido

  refers to sexual energy; source of motivation that encompasses sexual energy but goes beyond it.
• life instincts


  refers to broaden term of libido which includes the energy of all
• death instincts


  which account for the aggressive drive.
• Id


  primary source of psychic energy and the seat of the instincts
• id


  Is the original system of personality; at birth a person is all this
• id

  It lacks organization and is blind, demanding, and insistent.
• id


  ruled by pleasure principle
• id


  largely unconscious
• ego

  Attempts to organize and mediate between the id and the reality of dangers posed by the id’s impulses.
• ego

  it is the “executive” that governs, controls, and regulates the personality.
• ego


  Ruled by the reality principle
• superego


  the internalized social component, largely rooted in what the person imagines to be the expectations of parental figures.
• superego


  the judicial branch of personality
• superego


  Represents the ideal rather than the real and strives not for pleasure but for perfection
• superego


  is related to psychological rewards and punishments
• unconscious


  stores all experiences, memories, and repressed material
• anxiety


  feeling of dread that results from repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experiences that emerge to the surface of awareness.
• anxiety


  can be considered as a state of tension that motivates us to do something.
• anxiety

  develops out of a conflict among the id, ego, and superego over control of the available psychic energy.
• anxiety


  function is to warn of impending danger
• reality anxiety


  is the fear of danger from the external world, and the level of such anxiety is proportionate to the degree of real threat.
• neurotic anxiety

  is the fear that the instincts will get out of hand and cause the person to do something for which she or he will be punished.
• moral anxiety

  is the fear of one’s own conscience.
• ego defense mechanism

  help the individual cope with anxiety and prevent the ego from being overwhelmed.
• two characteristics of defense mechanism

  1. deny and distort reality

  2. operate on unconscious