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Personality Mid-term
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Undergraduate 2
10/10/2012

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Tabula Rasa
Definition
blank slate
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Joseph Gasner (1727-1779)
Definition
priest, exorcist, he claimed his powers came from god. was very famous,
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Gasner's two types of illnesses
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natural illness
preternatural illness, possession
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Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
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he has able to do everything gasner could but without reference to god. illness was completely understood by reason, only natural illness.
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Subtle Physical Fluid
Definition
it is contained in each body. health was the proper distribution of said fluid. illness occurs when the balance is off.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Definition
creepy ass mutha fucka
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Hysteria
Definition
general term describing disorders such as paralysis of the arms or legs, or other such thing, because there is no known cause, the cause is assumed to be psychological.
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Jean-Martin Charcot
Definition
Freud's first teacher, very influential, discoved post hypnotic suggestions, and post hypnotic amnisia,
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Josef Breuer (1842-1925)
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friend of freud, did anne o
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Catharsis
Definition
find the original event that caused the symptom, often through hypnosis, when you find it, the symptom goes away
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Transference
Definition
Phenomenon that sometimes occurs during therapy in which a patient begins to respond to the therapist as if he or she was an important person in the patient's life, such as a mother or father
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Countertransference
Definition
Phenomenon that sometimes occurs during therapy in which the therapist becomes emotionally involved with a patient
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Psychotherapy
Definition
General term, 100 types
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
Freud's method
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Free association
Definition
the patient says whatever comes to mind, no matter how relevent, Freud called it the pillar of Psychoanalysis.
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Hedonism
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Our instinct towards pleasure, warmth, hunger, sexual. All instincts are directed outside of me. A motivation for behavior.
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Homeostasis
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Being stable, no need for anything, all needs are met
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Libido
Definition
The Sex Drive, psychic energy, constantly surging up, the drive for sex
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Eros
Definition
Life instinct, primary instinct
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Thanatos
Definition
The death instinct
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Nirvana
Definition
only achievable through death
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ID
Definition
pure, unadulterated, instinctual energy and exists purely on the unconscious level.
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Pleasure Principal
Definition
the id demands the immediate reduction of any tension associated with an unsatisfied bodily need
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Reflex Action
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the id responding automatically to a source of irritation,
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Wish Fulfillment
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The id conjuring of an image of an object or event that is capable of satisfying a biological need.
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Ego
Definition
the part of the personality that governs between the id and superego, realistically find solutions to problems
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SuperEgo
Definition
Moral Component of the personality that has two parts: the conscious and ego ideal
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conscious
Definition
the part of the super ego that results from the internalized experiences for which a child has been punished. also responsible for guilt.
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ego ideal
Definition
that portion of the superego that results from the internalized experiences for which a child has been rewarded. also for success and pride.
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Cathexis
Definition
the process of investing energy in the image or the actually thing in the world that we want. uses libido, mostly for sex
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Anti-Cathexis
Definition
the original image is covered up, subdued, such as holding hands, kissing, necking
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three personality types
Definition
1. normal, id, EGO, superego
2. violent/psychopath, ID, ego, superego
3.always says no, id, ego, SUPEREGO
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Anxiety
Definition
freud said anxiety is the cause of all adult neurosis. three types
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Reality Anxiety
Definition
something is actually dangerous
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Neurotic Anxiety
Definition
afraid that you will listen to your id, not superego
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Moral Anxiety
Definition
thinking that an behavior is against the ego ideal
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Repression
Definition
the primary defense mechanism,every one uses it. every one represses their birth, and our infancy, only after repression has failed that do we uses others
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Displacement
Definition
substitutes one object for one that is safer
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Identification
Definition
we find our identity in someone in our "group"
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Denial of Reality
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projection
Definition
project my negative problems onto someone else. pushing my emotion to others
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Reaction Formation
Definition
to change the emotion that i am feeling, to its opposite.
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Undoing
Definition
we try to change a act we did by doing something, magical such as "washing hands"
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Rationalization
Definition
logically thinking and justifying your actions
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regression
Definition
we return to a earlier stage of development, ie wetting the bed
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Psychosexual stages of development
Definition
yup
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Erogenous zone
Definition
the source of pleasure during each of the stages
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the five stages.
Definition
oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital //////// read them :)
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Carl Jung
Definition
crazy mutherfucka who need dat Jesus
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Libido
Definition
he expanded the meaning from just sexual energy, changed it to a general biological energy.
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Principle of equivalence
Definition
that the amount of energy in a system is fixed, and that if it is removed from one system, it will show up in another
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Principle of entropy
Definition
a constant tendency exist toward equalizing the energy in a system
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principle of opposites,
Definition
that for every thing, there is an opposite, this is shown in jung theories
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Ego
Definition
every thing that we are conscious of
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personal unconscious
Definition
consists of material from one's lifetime that was once conscious and then repressed or material that was not vivid enough to make an initial conscious impression
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Complex
Definition
set of interrelated ideas that are highly valued and that exist in the personal unconscious
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word-association test
Definition
a way to detect complex
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Collective Unconscious
Definition
collection of inherited predispositions that humans have to respond to certain events. These predisposition come from the universal experiences humans have had throughout their evolutionary past.
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Archetype
Definition
inherited predispositions to respond emotionally to certain aspects of the world. all the archetypes taken together make up the collective unconscious.
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Five main archetypes
Definition
persona, anima, animus, shadow, self
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Persona
Definition
Superficial aspect of the psyche that a person displays publicly. It includes the various roles one must play to function in society.
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Anima
Definition
female component of the male psyche
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Animus
Definition
male component of the female psyche
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Shadow
Definition
Deepest part of the collective unconscious that contains all our animalistic urges that characterized our prehuman existence.
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Self
Definition
state of the psyche if the individuation process has been completely successful. when the various components of the psyche are harmonized, the self becomes the center of all the various opposing psychic forces. the emergence of the self, coming into selfhood, and self-realization were used synonymously by jung
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Attitudes
Definition
general orientations of the psyche when relating to the world. the two basic types are introversion and extroversion
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Introversion
Definition
tendency to be internally oriented, quiet, subjective, and nonsocial.
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extroversion
Definition
tendency to be externally orientated, confident, outgoing, and gregarious.
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Function of Thought
Definition
determines how a person perceives the world and deals with information and experience. the four are sensing, thinking, feeling, and intuiting.
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Sensing
Definition
irrational, detects the presence of objects. it indicates that something is there, not what it is.
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Thinking
Definition
rational, tells us what an object is. it gives names to what is sensed
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Feeling
Definition
rational, determines what an object is worth to the person, pertains to "liking" or "disliking"
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Intuiting
Definition
Irrational, provides hunches when facts are not available.
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Mandala
Definition
Sanskrit word for circle. for jung the mandala is a symbol of wholeness, completeness, and perfection. it symbolizes the self.
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Causality
Definition
belief that a person's personality can be explained in terms of past experiences.
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Teleology
Definition
Belief that a person's anticipations of the future must be considered if that person's personality is to be completely understood.
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Synchronicity
Definition
Meaningful coincidence. when two independent events come together in a meaningful way.
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