Freud: Psychoanalysis

Cocaine

Freud believed that this is the wonder drug towards psychological illnesses

March 6 or May 6, 1856

Born in Freiberg Moravia, part of Czech Republic (date)

September 23, 1939

When did he die in London?

Hysteria (Conversion Disorder)

A disorder typically characterized by paralysis or the improper functioning of certain parts of the body

Josef Breuer

A well-known Viennese physician 14 years older than Freud and a man of considerable scientific reputation

Catharsis

Process of removing hysterical symptoms through “talking them out”

Free association technique

Which soon replaced hypnosis as his principal therapeutic technique

Eros (sex) and Thanatos (aggression)

Primary motivator for behavior

Neurosis

A psychosomatic ailments, and an intense preoccupation with some form of creative activity

Carl Jung

Crown prince and “man of the future”

Anna Freud

Most popular child of Freud. Psychoanalyst who focuses on children.

Unconscious

Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness

Repression

Dreams, slips of the tongue, and certain kinds of forgetting

Phylogenetic Endowment

Portion of our unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors

Reaction formation

Unconscious mind of one person can communicate with the unconscious of another without either person being aware of the process

Preconscious

Can be retrieved

Preconscious

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

Conscious

Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time

Perceptual conscious system

Which is turned toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perception of external stimuli. What we perceive through our sense organs, if not too threatening, enters into consciousness

The ID

Pleasure principle. No contact with reality, yet it strives constantly to reduce tension by satisfying basic desires

The EGO

Only region of the mind in contact with reality. Realistic principle

The SUPEREGO

Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality and is guided by the moralistic and idealistic principles

Guilt

Result of ego

Libido

For the sex drive, but energy from the aggressive drive remains nameless

A drive’s impetus

Amount of force it exerts

Aim

Seek pleasure by removing that excitation or reducing the tension

Source

region of the body in a state of excitation or tension

Object

Person or thing that serves as the means through which the aim is satisfied

Sadism

Need for sexual pleasure by inflicting pain or humiliation on another person

Masochism

Experience sexual pleasure from suffering pain and humiliation inflicted either by themselves or by others

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

A book that elevated aggression to the level of the sexual drive

Neurotic Anxiety

Apprehension of an unknown danger

Moral Anxiety

Stems from the conflict between ego and superego

Realistic Anxiety

Related to fear. Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a possible danger

Repression

Most basic defense mechanisms

Reaction formation

Adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form

Displacement

People can redirect their unacceptable urges into a variety of people or objects so that the original impulse is concealed

Fixation

Permanent attachment of the libido onto an earlier, more primitive stage of development

Oral fixation

Derive pleasure from eating, smoking, or talking

Anal fixation

Obsessed with neatness and orderliness

Regression

Safer time in your life where you let out your emotions

Projection (cheating)

Seeing in others unacceptable feelings or tendencies that actually reside in one’s own

Paranoia

Extreme type of projection. A mental disorder characterized by powerful delusions of persecution and jealousy

Introjection

(adopting personality from a movie) People incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego

Sublimation (productive)

Repression of the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim

Castration anxiety

Fear of losing penis

Psychological maturity

A stage attained after a person has passed through the earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner

Free association

Patients are required to verbalize every thought that comes into their mind, no matter how irrelevant

Dream Analysis

Favorite therapeutic technique of Freud

Transference

Strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop toward their analyst during

Negative Transference

Form of hostility must be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome and resistance to treatment

Manifest content

Dream is the surface meaning or the conscious description

Latent content

Unconscious material

Condensation

Manifest dream content is not as extensive as the latent level