Set: Personality and Personal Growth Ch 1 Freud

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Denial Defense mechanism in which a person is unwilling to accept an event that disturbs the ego.
Isolation Defense mechanism of partitioning, or separating, the anxiety-arousing parts of a situation fromt the rest of the psyche. Little or no emotional reaction remains connected to the event.
Projection Defense mechanism in which a person attributes to another person, animal, or object the qualities, feelings, or intentions that originate in the self.. It is then treated as if it were an external force.
Defense Mechanisms Ways in which the ego attempts to protect the whole personality against threat.
Rationalization Defense mechanism in which the individual finds acceptable reasons for unacceptable thoughts or actions. It disguises motives, rendering thoughts or actions morally justifiable, thus bowing to pressure from the superego
Reaction Formation Defense mechanism that replaces behaviors or feelings with those that are diametrically opposite. The result is an explicit and usually unconscious inversion of the wish.
Regression Defense mechanism that is manifested as a reversion to an earlier level of development, or to a mode of expression that is simpler or more childlike.
Repression Defense mechanism that forces a potentially anxiety-provoking idea, event, or perception away from the conscious, precluding possible resolution.
Sublimation Tension may be resolved and eliminated by redirecting it to other channels. Intellectual, artistic, or cultural goals may receive the energies previously directed toward sexual or aggressive ends.
Aggressive energy Energy assumed to have the same general properties as libido. It is also termed teh energy of the death impulse.
Anal stage Developmental stage from ages 2 to 4. Both the anal sphincter and the bladder are brought into awareness as areas of tension and gratification. A natural interest in self-discovery is prompted by toilet training.
Anxiety The major coping problem for the psyche. Triggered by an expected or foreseen increase in tension or displeasure, real or imagined, when a threat to the body or psyche is too great to be ignored, discharged, or mastered.
Cathexis The process by which the available libininal energy in the psyche is attached or invested in a person, idea, or thing. Once it is released this same energy may be redirected and become available for other current needs.
Dreamwork A process of distortion, selection, inversion, displacement, transformatio, or other modification of the original wish to render it acceptable to the ego, even if the original wish is not.
Ego ( I ) The part of the psyche that develops to ensure the health, safety, and sanity of the personality as it mediates between demands of the id and external reality.
Fixation A response that occurs when there is excessive involvement in a particular developmental stage. A tendency to seek gratificatiion of needs in simpler or childlike ways, rather than as an adult.
Genital stage Developmental stage from puberty to adulthood. Libinal energy returns to the genitals. Awareness of their seperate sexual identities and the search for ways to satisfy erotic and interpersonal needs occurs for boys and girls.
Id ( It) The original biological core out of which the rest of the personality emerges. Primitive and unorganized.
Impulses pressures to act without conscious thought toward particular ends. Needs are the physical aspects and wishes are the mental aspects.
Latency period Developmental period from ages 5 to 6 until the onset of puberty. The individuals focus shifts from relationship with parents to relationships with peers.
Libido The energy of the life impulses. Flow of energy that passes from one area of attention to another.
Oral stage Developmental stage from birth to 2-4 years. Needs and gratifications predominantly involve lips, tongue, and, later, teeth. The basic drive is to take in nourishment to relieve the tensions of huger and thirst.
Penis envy Feelings of inferiority that result from a girls desire for a penis, and the related realization of its lack.
Phallic stage Developmental stage from ages 3-5. Focus is on the genitals, with an awareness of the presence or absence of a penis.
Psychoanalysis Procedure for investigation, a method of treatment, and an accumulated collection of psychological information used to understand those aspects of mental life that are obscure and apparently unreachable.
Psychoanalytic theory Suggests that, while difficult to process, one can come to terms with the recurring demands of the id.
Superego (above I) The part of the psyche that develops from the ego and serves as a repository of moral codes, standards of conduct, and inhibitions that function as conscience, self-observation, and formation of ideals. It develops, elaborates, and maintains the moral code.
Wish fulfillment An aspect of dreams that may be considered as an alternate pathway to satisfy the desires of the id.

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Personality and Personal Growth, ch. 1, 6th edition R. Frager & J Fadiman

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hammann1 : Changed Projection → Defense mechanism in which a person attributes to another person, animal, or object the qualities, feelings, or intentions that originate in the self. The ties, feelings, or intentions that originate int the self. The projection is then treated as if it were an external force. to Projection → Defense mechanism in which a person attributes to another person, animal, or object the qualities, feelings, or intentions that originate in the self.. It is then treated as if it were an external force.
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  1. Rationalization → Defense mechanism in which the individual finds acceptable reasons for unacceptable thoughts or actions. It disguises motives, rendering thoughts or actions morally justifiable, thus bowing to pressure from the superego - 1 miss
  2. Repression → Defense mechanism that forces a potentially anxiety-provoking idea, event, or perception away from the conscious, precluding possible resolution. - 1 miss
  3. Sublimation → Tension may be resolved and eliminated by redirecting it to other channels. Intellectual, artistic, or cultural goals may receive the energies previously directed toward sexual or aggressive ends. - 1 miss
  4. Aggressive energy → Energy assumed to have the same general properties as libido. It is also termed teh energy of the death impulse. - 1 miss
  5. Anxiety → The major coping problem for the psyche. Triggered by an expected or foreseen increase in tension or displeasure, real or imagined, when a threat to the body or psyche is too great to be ignored, discharged, or mastered. - 1 miss
  6. Cathexis → The process by which the available libininal energy in the psyche is attached or invested in a person, idea, or thing. Once it is released this same energy may be redirected and become available for other current needs. - 1 miss
  7. Dreamwork → A process of distortion, selection, inversion, displacement, transformatio, or other modification of the original wish to render it acceptable to the ego, even if the original wish is not. - 1 miss