Psychoanalysis Overview and Key Concepts

What is the term Freud used for a drive or stimulus within a person?

What are the two major divisions of Freud's theory of drives?

What is the aim of the sexual drive?

What is the term for the term for the psychic energy associated with the sexual drive?

Freud argued that the aim of the sexual drive can be varied?

What is the term used by Freud for the love of self?

What is the term Freud used for a child's sexual interest in their mother?

What is the term for the fear of losing the penis?

What term is used to describe the force created when the id's demands are stifled?

What term did Freud use to describe a person's effort to defend against anxiety?

What defense mechanism forces threatening feelings into the unconscious?

What defense mechanism involves adopting a disguise that is directly opposite its original form?

What defense mechanism involves redirecting unacceptable urges onto other people or objects?

What defense mechanism involves remaining at a comfortable psychological stage?

What defense mechanism involves reverting back to an earlier stage during times of stress?

What defense mechanism involves attributing unwanted impulses to another person?

What defense mechanism involves incorporating positive qualities of another person into one's own ego?

What defense mechanism involves repressing the genital aim of Eros by substituting a cultural or social aim?

What stage does Freud consider to be the foundation for personality formation?

What are the three phases of the infantile period?

What stage is associated with infants receiving satisfaction by destroying or losing objects?

What is the term for the sexual interest in the genitals?

Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's three blows to humanity's narcissistic ego?

Which unconscious drive does Freud believe encourages the idea of self-destruction?

What aspect of humanity does Freud believe is shaped by past causes?

Which unconscious drive is believed to be at the root of our desire for sexual and aggressive drives?

What is the term Freud believed provided the executive function of the mind?

What part of the mind did Freud believe was responsible for the moral and idealistic principles and began to form after the Oedipus complex?

What did Freud argue was the main purpose of his psychoanalytic therapy?

What is the term used to describe the strong sexual or aggressive feelings that patients develop toward their therapist?

What is the term for the surface meaning of a dream as reported by the dreamer?

What is the term for the unconscious meaning of a dream?

What did Freud believe was the term for faulty actions?

Freud believed that parapraxes or unconscious slips reveal the unconscious intentions of a person?

What is the name of the book where Freud discusses the various interpretations of dreams?

What did Freud believe that dreams originated from?

What term did Freud use for the process of shortening or combining an unconscious image in a dream?

What term did Freud use to describe the process when an unconscious image is replaced by another in a dream?

What is the name of the book Freud published in 1901 that discusses slips of the tongue?

What did Freud believe was the purpose of his more active early therapeutic technique?

What was the main goal of Freud's later therapeutic technique?

What did Freud term the process of verbalizing every thought that comes to mind when using Freud's later therapeutic technique?

What is one of the key components of Freud's later therapeutic technique that he used to access the unconscious?

What is the term used by Freud to describe the strong sexual or aggressive feelings that a patient may develop toward their therapist during the course of treatment?

What term is used to describe behaviors used by patients to block their own progress in therapy?

Freud believed that all old memories should be brought into consciousness during the course of psychoanalysis?

What did Freud use to transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content?

Freud believed that nearly all dreams are wish fulfillments?

What term did Freud use for the process of shortening or combining unconscious material in a dream?

What term did Freud use to describe the process of replacing unconscious material in a dream?

What was the term used by Freud for faulty actions?

What is often used in place of the term 'Freudian slips'?

Freud argued that parapraxes or unconscious slips are not chance events?

Freud viewed his work as creating a new science?

Freud's early therapeutic techniques were focused on identifying repressed memories?

Freud's later therapeutic techniques were focused on using free association and dream analysis?

Freud believed that during the latency period of a person's development, sexual drives are mostly repressed.

Freud believed that during the genital period, a person must repress their sexual drives?

Which one of these is NOT one of Freud's three blows to humanity's narcissistic ego?

Freud believed that humanity is fundamentally pessimistic?

Freud believed that human behavior is primarily driven by unconscious drives and desires?

Freud believed that humanity is primarily shaped by biological influences rather than by social influences?

Freud believed that humanity is shaped by both unique and similar factors?