CH 3.4-3.6 Vocab

Freud’s psychoanalytical school

emphasized the role of unconscious motives and thoughts and their dynamic interrelationships in the determination of both normal and abnormal behavior

unconscious

the part of the innd operating below conscious awareness, containing inaccessible memories, urges, and drives

the larger portion according to Freud

repressed

pushed out of consciousness

psychoanalysis

type of treatment based on the theory that our present is shaped by our past

Id, ego, and superego

three components of the personality according to Freud that form a person’s personality and influence behavior

id

the source of instinctual drives and the first structure to appear in infancy

life instincts

constructive drives that are made up of libido and death instincts

libido

a term used to describe the insintcual drives of the id, the basic constructive energy of life, primarily sexual in nature

death instincts

destructive drives that tend toward aggression, destruction, and eventual death

pleasure principle

demand that an instinctual need be immediately gratified regardless of reality or moral considerations

primary process thinking

gratification of id demands by means of imagery or fantasy without the ability to undertake the realistic actions needed to meet those instinctual demands