Understanding Personality and Psychoanalysis

1. An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

2. Personality

3. Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality, which emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior, sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the enduring effects of early childhood experiences on later personality development

4. Psychoanalysis

5. A psychoanalytic technique in which the patient spontaneously repots all thoughts,feelings, and mental images as they come to mind

6. Free association

7. In Freud’s theory, a term used to describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below the level of conscious awareness

8. Unconscious

9. In Freud’s theory, the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction or instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the pleasure principle

10. Id

11. In Freud’s theory, the motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human motive and the guiding principle of the id

12. Pleasure Principle

13. In Freud’s theory, the part of personality that mediates the demands of the id without going against the restraints of the superego • Follows the reality principle

14. Ego

15. In Freud’s theory, one’s conscience; focuses on what the person “should” do.

16. Superego

17. Unconscious mental processes employed by the ego to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

18. defense mechanisms

19. Puts anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, and memories into the unconscious mind

20. Repression

21. Shifts an unacceptable impulse toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

22. Displacement

23. Defense mechanism that involves redirecting sexual urges toward productive, socially acceptable, nonsexual activities

24. Sublimation

25. Allows an anxious person to retreat to a more comfortable, infantile stage of life

26. Regression

27. Replacing an unacceptable wish with its opposite

28. Reaction Formation

29. Reducing anxiety by attributing unacceptable impulses or problems about yourself to someone else

30. Projection

31. Displaces real, anxiety-provoking explanations with more comforting justifications for one’s actions

32. Rationalization

33. In Freud’s theory, age related developmental periods in which the child’s sexual urges are expressed through different areas of the body and those activities associated with those areas

34. Psychosexual stages

35. In Freud’s theory, a child’s unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent, usually by hostile feelings toward the same-sex parent

36. Oedipus complex

37. Stage where pleasure comes from chewing, biting, and sucking.

38. Oral

39. Gratification comes from bowel and bladders functions.

40. Anal

41. Psychosexual Stage that… • Focus of pleasure shifts to the genitals • Sexual attraction for opposite sex parent • Child identifies with and tries to mimic the same sex parent to learn gender identity.

42. Phallic Stage

43. Psychosexual Stage where… • Sexuality is repressed due to intense anxiety caused by Oedipus complex • Children participate in hobbies, school, and same-sex friendships that strengthen their sexual identity

44. Latency Stage

45. In this Psychosexual Stage… • Incestuous sexual feelings re-emerge but being prohibited by the superego are redirected toward others who resemble the person’s opposite sex parent. • Maturation of sexual interests

46. Genital Stage

47. In Jung’s theory, the hypothesized part of the unconscious mind that is inherited from previous generations and that contains universally shared ancestral experiences and ideas.

48. collective unconscious

49. In Jung’s theory, the inherited mental images of universal human instincts, themes, and preoccupations that are the main components of the collective unconscious • Examples: powerful father, nurturing mother, witch, wise old man, innocent child, death & rebirth, etc…

50. Archetype