Basic Themes of Freud’s theory

n Dynamic

n Unconscious

n Sex and aggression

n Infantile sexuality

n Conflict

n Pleasure versus pain

n Developmental Model

n Defenses

n Interpretation

n Balance

Freud’s structural model

n ID

n pleasure principle

n primary process

n EGO

n reality principle

n secondary process

n SUPEREGO

Terms in psychosexual theory

n LIBIDO

n CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

n FIXATION

n Frustration

n Overindulgence

Psychosexual stages

n ORAL STAGE

n Major Conflict: Weaning

n Oral incorporative (0 - 6 months)

n Oral sadistic (6 - 18 months)

n ANAL STAGE

n Major conflict: toilet training

n Anal expulsive

n Anal retentive

n PHALLIC STAGE

Major conflict:

Oedipus Complex (M)

Electra Complex (F)

n castration anxiety

n penis envy

n Latency stage

n No conflict

n Genital stage

n development of mature love

Types of defense mechanisms

n repression

n projection

n displacement

n rationalization

n reaction formation

n denial

n sublimation

Ways to achieve mental health

n Balance elements of personality

n resolve unconscious conflicts

n make unconscious conscious

n use adaptive defense mechanisms

n sublimation

n identification with same sex parent

n child-bearing for women

How do we access unconscious?

n Parapraxes (slips)

n Hypnosis

n free association

n dreams

n manifest content

n latent content

n projective tests