Psych 451 The ideas of Sigmund freudHow did Freud’s childhood play into his theories? Oedipus complex – loved and favored by his mother, feared and was intimidated by his father. What are the psychosexual stages of development?OralAnalPhallicLatentGenitalExamples of defense mechanisms:Denial: denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic eventDisplacement: shifting id impulses from a threatening or unavailable object to an object more availableProjection: Attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else. I hate her but im saying you doRationalization: reinterpreting behavior to make it more socially acceptableReaction formation: expressing an id impulse that is the opposite of the one that’s driving the personRegression: retreating to an earlier less frustrating period of life (Watching Disney movies)Repression: denying the existence of something that causes anxietySublimination: altering or displacing id impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable behaviors. What are the id ego and superego The levels of personalityId: source of psychic energy and aspect of personality allied with instinctsEgo: rational aspect of personality responsible for controlling the id Superego: moral aspect of personality What are free association resistance and repression?Freud struggled with his free association method in that there was always a point where the patient would refuse to go on.Freud called this resistance a blockage or refusal to disclose painful memoriesRepression: the process of barring unacceptable ideas memories or desires from conscious awareness, leaving them to operate in the unconscious mind.What did academic psychologists think of psychoanalysis?Not much documentation, can’t really be tested in a lab. They weren’t into it.What can we say about how freud’s concepts held up experimentally?Experimental psychology supported the ideas of :Some oral and anal personality typesCastration anxietyDreams reflecting emotional concernsAspects of Oedipus complexRepression, denial, projectionFreudian slipsExperimental psychology did not support:Dreams satisfying symbolically repressed wishes and desiresResolving of oedipal complexPersonality changing little after 5 Women having a difficult time achieving an identityCriticisms of freud: SexistData collection methodology: lot of dissonance between freud’s notes and what has been written about these casesWe don’t really know how freud reached his conclusionsCritiqued for being so deterministic Ignoring aspects of healthy peopleHis contributions to psychologyPsychoanalysis still appeals to the publicSome psychologists are still trained in psychoanalysisInfluenced many peopleThe ideas are still in psych“greatest originator of all, the agent of the zeitgeist who accomplished the invasion of
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