Psychoanalysis Quiz

Free Association

say whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing

get a sense of what is in the unconscious mind

ID

the want, the pleasure principle

“I want”

Superego

I should do this, one’s conscience (focuses on what one should do)

can be harshly punished by guilt

Ego

I will, mediates the demands of the ID without going against the super ego

repression

forgets anxiety producing thoughts and feelings and memeories

“I don’t remember that happening”

Denial

refusing to admit that something unpleasant is happening

“Nope, that never happened”

Regression

acting immature - retreating to more infantile stage of life, throwing temper tantrum

Reaction Formation

Acting in a way that is complete opposite of unacceptable urges, hypocritical

Boys will tease someone they actually like

Projection

attributing unacceptable impulses you have to someone else

Rationalization

trying to reason away anxiety producing thoughts

“it’s okay, I didn’t want to go to that college anyways”

Undoing

Unconsciously neutralizing an anxiety causing action by doing another action that undoes the first one

Displacment

displases unacceptable impulses towards a more acceptable person or object

ex. Mad at boss, goes home and yells at younger sister

Sublimation

Unacceptable urges are channeled into more acceptable activities

unacceptable s aggressive urges and channeling it into play football

Oral Stage

Birth - 1 year

mouth is associated with pleasure (sucking, biting, chewing)

fixated will lead to thumb sucking or nail biting

Anal stage

1-3 years old

gratification comes from bowel and bladder function

fixation will lead to anal retentive or anal explosive behaviors

Phallic Stage

3-5 years old

focus of pleasure of gentials

children are sexual attracted to their opposite sex parents

children try to mimic same sex parents

fixation will lead toe xcessive masculinity in males and the need for attention in females

Oedipus Complex

young boy has sexual feelings for mother

boy feels hostile and jealous towards feather but they realize their father is more powerful

Castration Anxiety

boys afraid their father will punish them for castrating them

Electra Complex

Girls have incestuous feelings towards father and have to compete with mother

girls will suffer from deprivation and loss cause they don’t have what guys have so they will blame mom for not sending her into the world sufficently

latencty stage

5-puberty

sexuality is pressed due to intense anxiety caused by Oedipus/Electra complex

children focus on hobbies, school and friendships

Genital Stage

Puberty on

sexual feelings re-emerge but are redirected toward others who resemble the person’s opposite sex parent

Carl Jung

Rejected Freuds belief that behaviour was driven by Sex and Agression

Believed general psychic energy pushes us to grow

first to develop ideas of introverts and extraverts

collective unconscious

we all inherit shared memories/experiences from our ancestors

Archetypes

universal symbols found in stories,myths and art that deal with human life cycle

ex. powerful father, nurturing mother, witch, wise old man, ect.

Animus

masculine side every woman has

anima

feminine side every man has

Karen Horney

childhood tensions are crucial for personality formations

Basic Anxiety

the feeling of being isolated and helpless ina hostile world

Womb Envy

men have this because they can’t create life, opposite of Freud’s belief of women being jealous of men

causes men to compensate by being creative

How do you deal with the basic anxiety?

1. moving towards other people, excessive need for approval/affection

2. moving against people, excessive need for power over others

3. moving away from people, excessive need for indepence, causes people to be aloof and detached

Alfred Adler

Psychological problems were the result of feelings of inferiority

inferirority complex

condition that comes from being unable to compensate for normal intense feelings

birth order

the order you are born in (youngest, middle, oldest, only) affects your personallity

eval of psychoanalysis

evidence is inadequate, not testable and is sexist