Freud vocabulary
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- psychological determination
- nothing about human behavior occurs by accident; all is predetermined or a psychological cause
- Id
- beyond conscioud awareness. Whatever is present at birth. All that relates to satisfaction of physical drives.
- Pleasure principle
- Achievement of pleasurable feelings as quickly as possible through the reduction of discomfort.
- Primary process
- A continual flow of infintile images and wishes demanding direct and immediate satisfaction.
- Libido
- energy of sexual desires, in the broadest sense.
- Eros
- Represents energy for preserving oneself or others. Life energy.
- Thanatos
- Represents energy aimed at returning living things to their original non living state. Destructive, death energy.
- Ego
- Coherent organization of mental processes derived from the id which intermediates between the id and reality to effectively satisfy the ids needs in a constructive fashion.
- Reality principle
- the Ego's capacity to delay gratification until best route to meet needs is found.
- Secondary process
- intellectual operations (such as thinking, evaluating, planning) to test reality to determine if behaviors are benificial.
- Anxiety
- a state of extreme emotional discomfort.
- Defense mechanism
- unconscious, automatic psychological strategies to regain control over threatening id instincts.
- Repression
- threatening material becomes unavailable for recall, because it has been pressed down into the unconscious for protection.
- Projection
- protects us from threats by allowing us to see our unacceptable characteristics only in other people.
- Rationalization
- allows us to excuse our unacceptable behaviors but self-deceptive reasoning.
- Denial
- the process by which we refuse to acknowlege what is too hard to bear.
- Intellectualization
- conceptualizing on an academic rather than an emotional level what is too threatening in order to rationalize it to ourselves.
- Neurosis
- a pattern od abnormal behaviors related to an over control of instincts.
- Hysterical Neurosis
- a condition which people display symptoms of a disorder to avoid experiences to threatening for conscious consideration while physical evidence of the disorder is absent.
- Superego
- representation of sociatal norms within a personality.
- Introjection
- the process by which the personality incorporates social norms through identification with important others.
- Morality principle
- code of sociatal values of right and wrong.
- Conscience
- the internal agent that punishes us when we do "wrong".
- Guilt
- intense feelings of regret or inadequacy.
- Ego ideal
- positive standards in the form of internal representations of idealized parental figures.
- Oral or Narcissistic (self-centered)stage
- age 0-1 1/2. Phase where psychic energy is focused on satisfying the needs of the mouth and digestive tract, including tounge and lips.
- Fixation
- developemental impairment within a psychosexual stage which results in perminent investment of libidinal energies in said stage.
- Regression
- retreating to behaviors, feelings & thoughts characteristic of the earlier fixated stage.
- Oral-receptive
- personality type that results from pleasurable experiences of the oral phase. Associated with dependency and suggestability.
- Oral-aggressive
- personality type that results from pleasure associated with oral phase with an emphasis on chewing and biting.
- Anal Stage
- 2nd PS stage (1 1/2-3 yrs.) The period in which sexual gratification occurs when defecation relieves the tention of full bowls while stimulating the anus.
- Anal retentive
- an adult personality type characterized by delay of satisfaction to the last possible moment. Constipated orentation.
- Anal expulsive
- adult personality type inclined to disregard widly accepted rules such as orderliness and appropriate behavior. Diarrectic orientation.
- Phallic Stage
- 3rd PS stage (3-6 yrs.) Satisfaction is primarily reached through stimulation of thr penis or clitoris- through masterbation.
- Oedipus complex
- revolves around a boys sexual desire for his mother and fearful hatred for his father.
- Electra Complex
- bases on a girls sexual desire for her father and her wishes to replace her hated mother.
- Castration anxiety
- a boys fear of losing his penis (his highly prized pleasure organ)He fears father will cut it off when he learns of the boy's desire for mother.
- Penis envy
- refer's to a girl's inferior fellings of having no penis and compensatory wishes to one day obtain one.
- Identification
- the process of becoming like the same-sex parent.
- Ego strength
- ego's ability to interact with reality on behalf of the id and to inhibit impulses until safe.
- Latency Stage
- 4th PS stage (6-13 yrs). Quiet period where children supress infantile urges & attraction to the desired parent.
- Sublimation
- a process that reorients instinctual aims in new directions consistant with social norms.
- Genital Stage
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5th and last PS stage (13+ yrs.)
The stage of mature sexual love where one directs affection and lust toward another person. - Cathexes
- attachments of libidinous energies to either to real external world objects or to fantasized inner world images.
- displacement
- finding a new, less threatening target for feelings.
- Free association
- orientation that allows ideas, images, memories, and feelings to be expressed spontaniously.
- Catharsis
- A process where inner feelings are openly expressed leading to release of tentions.
- Manifest content
- what a dreamer remembers when s/he awakens.
- Laten content
- The underlying meaning of a dream.
- Psychoanalysis
- Freud's procedure designed to provide insight necessary to rid the personality of neurotic conflicts.
- Insight
- the making conscious of unacceptable experiences buried in one's unconscious.
- Transference
- occurs when the patient projects feeling for a significant person onto the therapist.
- Countertransference
- occurs when the therapist projects their own unconscious needs onto the patient.
- Slips of the tongue
- verbal errors that seem to replace neutral words with ones supposedly emanate fom the unconscious.
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