Personality Terms Chapter 10

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Psychic Determinism

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The assumption that everything psychological has a cause that is, in principle, identifiable.

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Unconscious Mind

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Those areas and processes of the mind of which a person is not aware.

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Id

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In psychoanalytic theory, the repository of the drives, the emotions, and the primitive, unconscious part of the mind that wants everything now.

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Ego

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In psychoanalytic theory, the relatively rational part of the mind that takes on the job of balancing competing claims of the id, the superego, and reality.

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Superego

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In psychoanalytic theory, the location of the conscious and the individual's system of internalized rules of conduct, or "morality."

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Psychic Conflict

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The phenomenon of one part of the mind being at cross-purposes with another part of the mind.

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Compromise Formation

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In modern psychoanalytic thought, the main job of the ego, which is to find a compromise among the different structures of the mind and the many different things the individual wants all at the same time. What the individual actually thinks and does is a result of compromise.

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Psychic Energy

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In psychoanalytic theory, the energy that allows the psychological system to function, also called the libido.

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Libido

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In psychoanalytic theory, the drive toward the creation, nurturing, and enhancement of life (including but not limited to sex), or the energy stemming from this drive.

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Thanatos

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In psychoanalytic theory, another term for the drive toward death, destruction, and decay.

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Doctrine of Opposites

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In psychoanalytic theory, the idea that everything implies or contains its opposite.

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Oral Stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of psychosexual development, from birth to about 18 months of age, in which the physical focus of the libido is located in the mouth, lips and tongue.

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Anal Stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of psychosexual development, from about 18 months to three and a half or four years of age, in which the physical focus of the libido is located in the anus and associated elimination organs.

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Phallic Stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the stage of psychosexual development, from about four to seven years of age, in which the physical focus of the libido is the penis (for girls, their lack thereof).

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Identification

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In psychoanalytic theory, taking on the values and worldview of another person (such as a parent).

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Genital Stage

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In psychoanalytic theory, the final stage of the final stage of psychosexual development, in which the physical focus of the libido is the genitals, with an emphasis on heterosexual relationships. The stage begins at about puberty but is only fully attained when and if the individual achieves psychological maturity.

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Mental Health

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According to Freud's definition, the ability to love and to work.

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Fixation

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In psychoanalytic theory, leaving a disproportionate share of one's libido behind at an earlier stage of development.

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Regression

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In psychoanalytic theory, a movement back to an earlier stage of psychosexual development.

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Primary Process Thinking

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In psychoanalytic theory, the term for the strange and primitive style of unconscious thinking manifested by the id.

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Secondary Process Thinking

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In psychoanalytic theory, the term for rational and conscious processes of ordinary thought.

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Displacement

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In psychoanalytic theory, the defense mechanism that redirects an impulse from a dangerous target to a safe one.

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Condensation

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In psychoanalytic theory, the method of primary process thinking in which several ideas are compressed into one.

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Symbolization

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In psychoanalytic theory, the process of primary process thinking in which one thing stands for another.

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Conscious Mind

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The part of the mind's activities of which one is aware.

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Preconscious

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Thoughts and ideas that temporarily reside just out of consciousness but can be brought to mind quickly and easily.

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Transference

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In psychoanalytic theory, the tendency to bring ways of thinking, feeling, and behavior that developed with one important person into later relationships with different persons.