PSYCH 2B03 Chapter 11: Chapter 11.pdf
18 Mar 2013
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Freudian slips /parapraxes thoughts, words, actions that leak out: due to ineffective defense mechanisms, provides important clues about activities of the unconscious mind. Wit/humor: mechanism to allow an impulse or feeling that is ordinarily seen as inappropriate to be enjoyable and acceptable. Anxiety can be generated by outside stresses or by conflicts within the mind itself* range. Freud believed that most people at times feel sexual attraction toward members of the same sex just pushed out of action and awareness. Impulse is a persistent source of anxiety, but they may not become aware of this source of discomfort. Id: want freedom, superego: guilty from divorce ego: leave wife but never enjoy another women (rejected two attractive women) Vague anxiety: when you don"t know why psychoanalytic therapy sought to uncover and relieve hidden sources of anxiety. Distort reality to avoid anxiety happier, experience better mental health.
