PSYC100

five psychosexual stages

oral (mouth) → anal (bowel/bladder control) → phallic (genitals/rivalry) → latency (dormant) → genital (mature sexuality)

displacement vs. projection

• displacement: taking out feelings on safer target (e.g., yelling at partner because mad at boss)

• projection: accusing someone else of having own unacceptable feelings (e.g., accusing partner of cheating because you’re thinking of cheating)

reaction formation

expressing the opposite of your true feelings

regression

reverting to early developmental behaviors as a coping mechanism (e.g., crying on parent’s shoulder after breakup)

sublimation

redirecting into social good instead of acting out on negative urges (e.g., starting an anti-bullying advocacy group after experiencing bullying instead of taking out revenge years later)

conversion

physiological distress, with no medical cause, deriving from psychological distress (e.g., excruciating back pain during stressful finals season)

identification

absorbing another’s mannerisms (oftentimes, someone successful or powerful as an ego defense mechanism)

intellectualization

turning an emotional event into a case study with cold, objective facts to suppress feelings

persona, jungian archetype

the "mask” you wear to fit in to whatever context and hide what’s unacceptable (e.g., your professional work personality vs. your at home personality)

shadow, jungian archetype

the darker parts of us that we don’t want to admit we have

anima/animus, jungian archetype

the “opposite gender” qualities of one

self, jungian archetype

the whole of conscious + unconscious mind we work towards in self-actualization