Sigmund Freud's Theory of Personality Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Lasts through puberty and on. Maturation of sexual interests.
  2. 4. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.
  3. 5. Disguises threatening feelings of guilty anxiety by attributing the problem to others.
  4. 6. theory of personality.
  5. 7. Displaces real anxiety-provoking explanations and replaces them with more comforting justifications for one's actions.
  6. 10. Shifts an unacceptable impulse toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
  7. 11. Allows an anxious person to retreat to a more comforting, infantile stage of life.
  8. 12. sexual stages The childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on different parts of the body.
  9. 13. Founder of psychoanalysis.
  10. 15. Lasts through age of 3 years to 6 years. Pleasure zone is the genitals.
  11. 17. The part of personality that consists of unconscious, psychic energy and strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
  12. 18. The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.
  13. 20. The largely conscious part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.
  14. 21. Lasts though 18 months to 3 years of age. Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder function.
  15. 22. Banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
  16. 23. Lasts through the first 18 months of life. Pleasure comes from chewing, biting, and sucking.
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  1. 1. Reverses an unacceptable impulse. causing an anxious person to express the opposite of the anxiety-provoking unconscious feeling.
  2. 2. A region of the mind holding information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness.
  3. 6. A view of personality that retains some aspects of Freudian theory, but is less likely to see unresolved childhood conflicts as a source of personality development.
  4. 8. Lets an anxious person to refuse to admit that something unpleasant is happening.
  5. 9. mechanism The ego's protective methods in psychoanalytic theory that reduces anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
  6. 14. A region of the mind that is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
  7. 16. Lasts through age 6 years to puberty. Dormant sexual feelings.
  8. 19. association A method in psychoanalysis used in exploring the unconscious, in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.