PSYC 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Castration Anxiety, Age 13, Oral Stage
11 Mar 2017
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Attachment theory: we form emotional bonds to our caregivers, which become mental representations (internal working models) of all future intimate relationships. Our feelings from past significant relationships can become transferred onto future potential partners: especially if they resemble significant people in terms of personality characteristics and typical behaviours. Psychoanalytic psychology: (cid:271)ased on freud"s theories and methods of psychoanalysis. A method for investigating unconscious processes and a technique for treatment. Transference: are we destined to fall in love with our parent of the other sex, or with somebody who resembles them. We form mental representations of ourselves, others, and our relationships from early experiences. Eros: life instincts: libido: psychic energy of life instincts. Thanatos: death instincts: aggression: the psychic energy of death instincts. Free association: when the patient says whatever comes to mind without consciously trying to control, monitor, or censor what they say to reveal unconscious thoughts. Parapraxes: mistakes caused by unconscious desires: freudian slip: a mistake in speech.
