SIGMUND FREUD "PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY"

• Sigmund Freud


  Eldest and favorite child because he is smart and male
• Victorian Era

  Patriarchal society where males have greater opportunities over females
• Reasons Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis has endured

  • Postulated the primacy of sex and aggression
  • Attracted a group of followers who were dedicated to spreading psychoanalytic doctrine
  • Advanced the notion of unconscious motives, which permit varying explanations for the same observations
• Psychoanalysis

  2 cornerstone - SEX & AGGRESSION
• Anna O.


  Her case was the origin of Psychoanalysis
• Hystoria (now Conversion Disorder)


  Manifestation na nagdydysfunction ang physical pero wala naman talagang nangyayari, psychological ang problem; mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic)
• Catharsis or Talking Cure


  Conceptualized by freely speaking what one wants to say and taking note of the highlights figure out the problem
• Freud founded the PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Where he met two close associates Carl Jung and Alfred Adler
• Role of Psychoanalysis is to strengthen our ego to have better defense mechanisms
• Freud's theory is more useful in assessment than in therapy
• Tension


  Unpleasant feeling
• Instincts

  • Hunger
  • Sleep
  • Sex
• Repetition compulsion


  Aspect of an instinct which reflects a cycle from excitation to calmness
• Sex and aggression


  Twin cornerstones of psychoanalysis
• Sex/Eros


  For survival, productivity, life satisfying physiological need
• Libido


  Form of psychic energy, manifested by the life instincts, that drives a person toward pleasurable behaviors and thoughts—- desire for sex
• Narcissism


  It is manifested during the infant who are primarily self-centered, with their libido invested almost exclusively on their own ego
• Love


  Develops when people invest their libido on an object or person other than themselves
• Sadism


  The need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person
• Masochism


  The need for sexual pleasure from suffering pain and humiliation inflicted either by themselves or by others
• Aggressive drive/Thanatos


  The compulsion to destroy, conquer, and kill. The goal is to regress or to go back to inorganic state.
• Self-destruction


  The final aim of the aggressive drive.
• The aggressive tendency is present in everyone and is the explanation for wars, violence, and religious persecution.
• Anxiety


  A felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by the physical sensation of uneasiness
• Neurotic Anxiety


  Caused by id impulses that the ego can barely control
• Moral Anxiety


  Comes from threats of punishment from the superego
• Realistic Anxiety


  An unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger, closely related to fear
• Consciousness


  • Those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time
  • Only level of mental life directly available to us
• Unconscious


  • Animalistic-causing drives
  • Contains all urges that are beyond our awareness but that nevertheless motivate most of our actions
• Pre-conscious


  Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
• Phylogenetic endowment


  Part of our unconscious that originates experiences of our early ancestors
• Defense Mechanism


  Tool of the ego to control, Serve a useful function by protecting the ego against the pain of anxiety, without these, people will suffer form neurosis
• Denial


  Refusal to accept unpleasant reality
• Repression


  • Blocking a wish from conscious expression
  • Cornerstone of all defense mechanisms
• Projection


  Externalizing or attributing an unconscious impulse to another person
• Introjection


  People incorporate positive qualities of another person into their ego
• Reaction Formation


  Doing things that is opposite with what you feel
• Regression


  Returning to an earlier stage through expressing an impulse
• Sublimation


  • Doing things that are socially acceptable, positive and productive
  • Highest form or most matured defense mechanism
• Displacement


  • Displacing emotions to inanimate objects or subordinates
  • Form of projection