Freud Basics
The instinctual, desire-driven part of the mind.
What is the Id
The “mask” or social role we present to others.
What is the Persona?
His scientific obsession shows this Freudian conflict.
What is Id vs. Superego?
Freud would say the Creature represents this part of Victor.
What is his Id?
Victor dreams of these people after creating the Creature.
Who is his mother and Elizabeth?
The moral, rule-enforcing part of the psyche.
What is the Superego?
The dark, rejected part of ourselves that we fear.
What is the Shadow?
This major loss fuels his denial and obsession with defeating death.
What is his mother’s death?
The Creature mirrors Victor’s Shadow, containing these rejected qualities.
What are guilt, rage, fear, or destructive impulses?
Victor’s creation nightmare symbolizes this overwhelming emotion.
What is guilt?
The process of hiding guilt, trauma, and forbidden impulses.
What is repression?
Jung’s idea of inherited, universal symbols shared by all humans.
What is the collective unconscious?
His respectable, rational scientist image is an example of this Jungian concept.
What is the Persona?
The Creature’s emotional instability comes from lacking this early-life bond.
What is attachment? (Attachment theory)
18th century theory that claimed the mind works by linking ideas that occur together.
What is associationism?
When someone accuses others of qualities they actually fear in themselves.
What is projection?
According to Jung’s theories, Victor went down his path because he refused to do this.
What is accepting himself?
Victor’s refusal to accept responsibility for his creation is this defense mechanism.
What is repression OR denial?
His violence externalizes Victor’s repressed aggression, the Freudian concept.
What is displacement?
Both Victor and the Creature fall apart mentally due to this factor.
What is isolation or alienation?
Freud believed this reveals repressed emotions through symbolic images.
What are dreams? / What is dream analysis?
Jung’s term for integrating all parts of the psyche into a whole self.
What is individuation?
Victor’s downfall comes from failing to face this darker version of himself.
What is his Shadow?
Abandonment stunts the Creature’s moral development, fitting this Freudian idea.
What are the unmet early needs causing dysfunction?
A common 18th-century belief was that dreams could only occur when the body is in this state.
What is stress/lack of health?