Freuds Psychoanalytic Perspective: Exploring the Unconscious

Personality: In 5 words or less, describe your personality.

o 1. __________________________________
o 2. __________________________________
o 3. __________________________________
o 4. __________________________________
o 5. __________________________________
Personality - an individuals characteristic _________________ of
____________________, ____________________, and _____________________.

Psychoanalytic Theorys Core Ideas

o Parts of the mind
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious - according to Freud, ________________________________________
____________________________________________. According to contemporary
psychologists, information processing of which we are _________________.
Free association - a method of exploring the ________________ in
which the person _____________________________________________, no
matter how trivial or embarrassing
Psychoanalysis - Freuds theory of personality that attributes
thoughts and actions to ______________________________ and conflicts
Repression

Personality Structure
o Id - a reservoir of _________________ psychic energy that, according to Freud,
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the
____________________________, demanding _________________________________.
Pleasure principle
o Ego - the largely conscious, _______________ part of personality that, according
to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The
ego operates on the ________________________, satisfying the ids desires in ways
that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
Reality principle
o Superego - the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents
internalized ideals and _________________________________ (the ___________________)
and for future aspirations.
Conscience
 Psychosexual stages - the childhood stages of development, (oral, anal, phallic,
latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the ids pleasure-seeking
energies focus on distinct _____________________________________________.

o Oral
o Anal
o Phallic
o Latency
o Genital

Personality Development
o Erogenous zones
o Oedipus complex - according to Freud, a boys _______________________ toward
his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
o Electra complex
o Identification - the process by which, according to Freud, children
incorporate their ________________________ into their developing __________________.
o Gender identity
o Fixation according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies
at an earlier psychosexual state, in which conflicts were unresolved.

Defense Mechanisms - in psychoanalytic theory, the ____________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________.
o Repression - psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an _________________
____________________________________, where some psychic energy remains fixated.