Freud and classical psychoanalysis

Instinct

A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species. Designed to meet a need and stop.

Drive

The human pull to satisfy an instinct beyond the basic need fulfillment because it's fun: food, clothes, security, sex

Topographical model

Freud's model of three regions, or areas, of the mind: Conscious, preconscious and unconscious

Preconscious

Information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness

Unconscious

according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.

Id

a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. It operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

Ego

the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.It operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

Superego (Freud)

Judgmental side of self dictating whether one is following prescribed societal rules

How does the sense of time differ between the conscious and unconscious?

The unconscious has no sense of time. The "now" is all that exists. The conscious mind has a sense of timing, cause and effect and understands the delay of gratification

How is current thinking about memory storage different from how Freud thought about it?

Freud thought that memories were static and simply "stored" in one place, the preconscious. We now know that there is no single memory storage area. Memories are distributed among brain areas involved in processing the information.

Who first contradicted Freud about memory being a process rather than a place?

Carl Jung

Which two drives did Freud think were most important to human functioning?

Sex and aggression

Which defense mechanism did Freud focus on?

Repression

Parapraxis (Freudian Slip)

a leakage from the unconscious mind manifesting as a mistake, accident, omission, or memory lapse

5 Stages of Psychosexual Development (Freud)

The first attempt at understanding human development as a process. This was groundbreaking. The stages were not supported and better models were developed as we understand more about the human brain. However the vocabulary is still in the cultural lexicon, i.e. "he's so anal!"

1. Oral Stage

2. Anal Stage

3. Phallic Stage

4. Latency Stage

5. Genital Stage

The "royal road to the unconscious"

Freud believed that dreams may symbolically represent repressed impulses and desires

What two countries did some analysts migrate from Vienna when it became clear that the Nazi's were determine to kill them all? Why is this important?

United States, UK. Psychotherapy developed two different strains that were informed by the cultures in which they landed.

Repression (Freud)

excluding source of anxiety from awareness

According the Ch 2 review section of the Berzoff textbook, when do we repeat things (repetition compulsion)?

That which we do not understand

True or false: According to lecture and Ch 2 Berzoff, all of Freud's structural model has been completely mapped to specific structures of the brain?

False. While some of what we now know about the brain supports the idea of conscious and unconscious, we know that it involves a process between brain areas rather than a specific area for each role.