Background/Early Works
Freud's early patients suffered from what?
Hysteria
Freud believed that both physical and mental actions and decisions were caused by what?
Determinism
What are the self-preservative instincts?
Nourishment and self-protection
The theory that mental states are unconscious
Psychoanalytic Theory
At the University of Vienna Freud was interested in what subject?
Biology
Who’s thoughts about Biology did Freud accept?
Darwin
Which division of mind contains the person's conscience derived from moral norms learned in childhood?
Superego
The part of the mind that is totally unconscious, containing instinctual drives and repressed material
Id
Freud speculated neuroses always has a ______ origin
sexual
What factors play into determinism?
Laws of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Personality depends on ________ just as much as hereditary
Experience
The term for sexual energy
Libido
Freud first tried to use ______ and _______ before using recall of experience
electrotherapy, hypnotic suggestion
What belief states that nothing exists apart from the physical world?
Materialism
Freud assumed thoughts and behaviors must have hidden mental causes, which can reveal themselves in disguised form. This concept is known as ___
-Freudian Slip
The Freudian Slip
The theory that every event that happens is caused, and necessitated by the preceding states of affairs
Determinism
Id, Ego, Superego
Our unconscious thoughts, sensations and wishes are all a product of ________
The brain
Sexual desire for the mother and rivalry with the father
Oedipus Complex
The supposed drive underlying aggression, war, and self-destruction
Death instinct