Freud

• theory of motivation


  cornerstone of psychoanalytic
• personality


  Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality.
• personality


  pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
• unconscious

  large below the surface area which contains thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories, of which we are unaware.
• Free Association

  • the patient is asked to relax and say whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing or trivial
• catharsis


  releasement of negative emotions
• hysteria


  paralysis or improper functioning of the body
• Anna O


  patient of joseph breuer
• preconscious


  all those elements that are not conscious but can become quite readily or with some difficulty.
• conscious


  all those elements in awareness at any given time.
• id 


  reservoir of unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress.
• id

  pleasure principle
• ego

  • the largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates the demands of the id, superego, and reality
• ego


  reality principle
• superego


  represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscious) and for future aspirations.
• superego


  morality principle
• oral fixation


  Pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, chewing, biting. Focus: weaning
• analfixation


  Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control
• phallic fixation


  Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings…Focus: sexual identity
• latency fixation


  little or no sexual feelings...focus on learning
• genital fixation


  Maturation of sexual interest…focus: genital intercourse
• Oedipus complex


  a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
• Electra complex


  a girl’s sexual desire towards her father and feeling sof jealousy and hatred for the rival mother.
• castration anxiety


  Fear from boy’s struggle to deal with his love for mother while knowing he cannot overcome his father physically
• penis envy


  Desire for male dominated advantages
• identification


  the process by which, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos
• fixation

  • lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved.
• Freudian slips


  A lapse of memory or mental error, such as a slip of the tongue or misplacement of an object, which, in psychoanalytic theory, is due to unconscious associations and motives
• parapraxes


  other term for freudian slips
• anxiety


  It is the unpleasant state accompanied by the physical sensation of uneasiness.
• neurotic anxiety


  apprehension of unknown danger
• moral anxiety


  – fear of the retribution of one’s own conscience.
• reality anxiety


  fear of real danger
• defense mechanism


  Tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety in various ways, but always by distorting reality
• defense mechanism


  protecting the ego
• repression


  A defense mechanism that pushes threatening thoughts into the unconscious
• reaction formation


  A defense mechanism that pushes away threatening impulses by overemphasizing the opposite in one’s thoughts and words
• denial


  A defense mechanism in which one refuses to acknowledge anxiety provoking stimuli
• projection


  Defense mechanism in which anxiety arousing impulse are externalized by placing onto others
• displacement


  Defense mechanism in which the target of one’s unconscious fear or desire is shifted away from true cause