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23 Cards in this Set
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• psychic determinism
• internal structure • psychic conflict • mental energy |
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Psychic determinism
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everything a person thinks or does has an identifiable cause (no such thing as miracles, free will, or random accidents)
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Internal Structure
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Mind is divided into three parts (id, ego, superego), and the parts don’t always agree
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id
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emotional part
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ego
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rational part
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superego
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moral part
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Mental Energy
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energy that psychological apparatus of the mind needs to function (libido—only a fixed amount available at a given time)
• when energy is used for one thing, like suppressing upsetting thoughts, it can’t be used for others, like creating creative ideas |
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free association
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saying the first thing that comes to mind, for this purpose, which brings thoughts to the conscious
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Doctrine of Opposites
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everything implies and requires its opposite. life require death, happiness requires sadness; one cannot be without the other
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physical focus
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where energy is focused and where gratification is obtained
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psychological theme
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demands on the child from the outside world and the physical focus
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Oral Stage
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(birth to 18 months) sucking on things is one of the only things babies are capable of, so it’s the only possible source of pleasure
o Physical focus: mouth, lips, tongue o psychological theme: dependency, all id o adult personality type: oral character • two extremes: either extremely independent and help refusing, and totally dependent and gets angry when they don’t get what they want o fixation can be caused by needs not being fulfilled, which leads to mistrust and independence. or if needs are fulfilled too quickly and automatically then they assume that they will always be catered to |
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Anal Stage
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(early youth, 18 months) demands on baby escalate quickly in early youth, learns about consequences, potty training begins, learns concept of “no”, ego develops
o physical focus: anus and other organs of elimination o psychological theme: self=control and -bedience o adult personality type: anal character, either very controling or has not self-control o fixation caused by unreasonable expectations places on the child during training (don’t cry, get it right every time) or parent who were too nice about it and allowed too many mistakes |
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Phallic Stage
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(3.5 to 7 years) realize that boys and girls are different anatomically, Oedipus and Elektra complexes (boys fall physically and emotionally in love with their mothers and fear their father’s jealousy—specifically that their father will castrate them)
o psychological theme: gender identity and sexuality • identification: boys act like their dads because that’s how men “should be” and girls with mothers • superego develops o adult personality type: phallic character o an underdeveloped or overdeveloped superego leads to extremely loose or strict morals, respectively o underdeveloped could cause promiscuity |
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Genital Stage
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(puberty to latent stage)
o physical focus: pleasure redirected to the genitals o psychological theme: maturity, develop creativity, including intellectual, artistic, and scientific o adult personality type: genital character o balanced person |
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mental health
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the ability to love and work
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fixation
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to be stuck in a stage
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regression
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retreating to a fixated point when stressed
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secondary process thinking
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ordinary thinking, rational, practical, ego thinking (called secondary because it is developed, not innate and it is less important than primary process)
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primary process thinking
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unconscious mind, infants, thinking and the adult id. includes no thoughts of consequences or even the idea of the word “no”
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condensation
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compressing ideas into one
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symbolization
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one thing standing for another
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transference
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tendency to bring ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that developed toward one person intro a later relationship with a different person
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