Psychoanalytic

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  1. 2. The moral conscience, shaped by societal norms and parental influence.
  2. 3. Before language acquisition, the child experiences fragmented sensations.
  3. 4. The rational part that mediates between the id and reality
  4. 5. A dream mechanism where multiple ideas, images, or emotions are merged into a single symbol or scene. It reflects how the unconscious compresses complex thoughts.
  5. 6. Freud’s theory that during early childhood, boys experience unconscious desire for their mother and rivalry with their father (Oedipal), while girls experience desire for their father and competition with their mother (Electra, later expanded by Carl Jung).
  6. 9. Founder of psychoanalysis, Freud developed theories about the unconscious mind, dream interpretation, and the structure of personality. His work laid the foundation for understanding how unconscious desires and childhood experiences shape behavior.
  7. 11. The pseudoscientific belief that a person’s facial features or physical appearance reveal their character or psychological traits. Historically used in literature and psychology, though now discredited.
  8. 13. Entry into the Symbolic order, where identity is shaped by language and social structures
  9. 14. A 19th-century diagnosis (often applied to women) involving symptoms like anxiety, fainting, or emotional outbursts. Freud linked it to repressed sexual desires and unconscious conflicts, making it central to early psychoanalytic theory
  10. 15. The primal, instinctual part driven by pleasure and immediate gratification.
  11. 16. The literal storyline or imagery of a dream is what is consciously remembered. Freud contrasted this with latent content, the hidden psychological meaning behind the dream.
  12. 17. A French psychoanalyst who reinterpreted Freud through language and structuralism. He emphasized the role of the unconscious as structured like a language and introduced key developmental stages.
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  1. 1. Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of archetypes and universal symbols present in all human minds, influencing behavior and culture across generations.
  2. 7. A literary theorist who applied psychoanalysis to reading, arguing that readers project their own psychological identity onto texts, shaping interpretation through unconscious desires and defenses.
  3. 8. The idea that painful or socially unacceptable thoughts are pushed into the unconscious to avoid anxiety. These repressed memories or desires can resurface in dreams, slips of the tongue, or neurotic behavior.
  4. 10. Another dream mechanism where emotional significance is shifted from an important object or idea to a seemingly trivial one, allowing the unconscious to express repressed desires safely.
  5. 12. The child identifies with their reflection, forming a sense of self (the “I”)this is the Imaginary stage