Basics
The person most credited with the founding of Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Name the three main components of personality in Psychoanalytic Theory
What are the Id, Ego, Superego?
This level of awareness is represented as the "tip of the iceberg" in the Iceberg metaphor used to explain Psychoanalytic Theory.
What is Conscious Awareness?
Freud published his first book in this year, titled "The Interpretation of Dreams."
When is 1899?
This defense mechanism works to protect the ego by placing unconscious feelings upon another person.
What is Projection?
This city is known as the birthplace of western psychology.
This personality component is fully unconscious and drives our instincts, desires, and impulses.
What is the Id?
This component of the mind holds information we aren’t currently thinking about but can easily recall.
What is Preconcious?
What was Freud known to experiment with this drug and some say he might have been addicted to it.
What is cocaine?
This defense mechanism is common during traumatic events in childhood and is like having your memory erased of an event.
What is Repression?
Freud believed behavior is primarily driven by _______ desires, drives, and conflicts.
What are Unconscious?
This part of our mind/personality is responsible for managing our unconscious instincts with reality and the demands of what our social environment places on us.
What is the Ego?
Calling your girlfriend by the name of your ex is referred to as a ____________ .
What is a Freudian Slip or Parapraxis?
Name one critique of Freud’s theory that makes it controversial today.
What are outdated ideas, lack of evidence, overemphasis on sexuality?
The act of pouring oneself into a strenuous and difficult activity which expends physical and mental energy in order to deal with difficult feelings.
What is Sublimation?
Freud's therapeutic technique of uncovering patient's unconscious conflicts through listening carefully to the patient share whatever comes to their mind.
What is Free Association?
This component of our mind is responsible for making us feel guilty when we behave outside of what society tells us is morally right.
What is the Superego?
When desires and impulses are kept out of conscious awareness because they are too threatening to the ego. Name this defense mechanism.
What is Repression?
According to Freud, early childhood experiences shape personality through what these stages.
What are the Psycho-sexual Stages?
According to psychological criticism, we do things for reasons beyond our direct control, coming from where?
The unconcious
Freud's theories came out of this era/period of Western civilization.
What is the The Victorian Era
Which component of personality internalizes societal and moral standards.
What is the Superego?
In Psychoanalysis, unconscious content can reveal itself when patient's are asleep. This form of interpretive analysis is referred to as ___________ .
What is Dream Analysis?
Freud's concepts about human psychology heavily influenced what literary interpretation practice
Psychological Criticism
Psychoanalytic theory helps readers understand texts through their own unconscious biases in what literary analysis approach
Reader response interpretation