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personality
our characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
psychodynamics theories
descended from freud
unconscious
revisor of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
Free association
a method of exploring the unconscious in which the individual says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
ID
unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives
Ego
seeks to gratify the id's impulses and realistic ways that will bring long term pleasure
Super ego
our moral compass that forces our ego to consider real or ideal
Oedipus complex
the collection of guilt and fear of punishment from their father due to unconscious sexual desire for their mother and hatred for their father
Identification
identifying with the rival parent to cope with threatening feelings
conflicts unresolved
during the psychosexual stages surface as maladaptive behavior causing an individual to fixate in a stage
Oral (0-18 months)
pleasure centers around the mouth- sucking, biting, chewing
Anal (18-36 months)
pleasure focuses on bowel and badder elimination, coping with demands for control
Phallic (3-6 years)
pleasure zones in the genitals; coping with incesturous sexual feelings
Latency (6- puberty)
a phase of dormant sexual feelings
Genital (puberty-onwards)
maturation of sexual interests
defense mechanisms
the egos protective method of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
repression
banishes from conciseness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
regression
retreating to a more infantile state
reaction formation
switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites
projection
disguising ones own threatening impulses by attributing them onto others
rationalization
self justifying explanations in place if the real more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions
displacement
shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward more acceptable or less threatening object or person
denial
refusing to believe or perceive painful realities
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