MODULE 5

FREUD'S
PSYCHOANALYTIC
THEORY
AGTE, JEMAICA
BUCAYAN, EUGENE PAULO
LLAGAS, JAYSON
 01 Sigmund Freud
Key
Points 02 Structure of Personality

03 Anxiety

04 Defense Mechanism

05 Psychotherapy
01

SIGMUND
FREUD
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Neurologist
Created psychoanalysis to
treat psychopathology.
Bertha Pappenheim
Diagnosed with hysteria
Cured by Talk Therapy or
Talking Cure.
Psychoanalysis
a method of explaining and
treating mental and
emotional disorders by
having the patient talk freely
about himself or herself.
02

STRUCTURE OF
PERSONALITY
Id
Ego
Superego
 Pleasure Principle

Seeking pleasures and

avoids pain and sufferings.
In unconscious part of our
Id mind.
Impulsive part of our
psyche.
 Reality Principle

Balance Id's demands in

realistic way.

Ego
Mostly in Conscious part of
our mind and also partly in
Unconscious.
 Moral Principle
Conscience ( What is right
and wrong )
Holds Internalized Morals

Superego Both in Conscious and

Unconscious part of our
mind.
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ANXIETY
 Anxiety
an emotion characterized by
feelings of tension, worried
thoughts, and physical
changes like panic attacks.
 Types of Anxiety
Neurotic Anxiety - Id
Moral Anxiety - Superego
Realistic Anxiety - Ego
Comes from Id
Arises when a person does
not feel in control of Neurotic
themselves or Anxiety
circumstances.
Ex: Fear of Imperfections
Comes from Superego
Arises when person violate
his/her own moral Moral
principle. Anxiety
Ex: Feelings of Guilt
Comes from Ego
Arises when person human
perceive themselves to be
Realistic
in danger. Anxiety
Ex: Fear of heights
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DEFENSE
MECHANISM
 Defense
Mechanism
Strategies used by the ego to
protect itself from anxiety or
unpleasant experiences and
emotions.
 Forms of Defense
Mechanism
Repression
Denial
Sublimation
 Forcing down emotion
Ego effectively forgetting
memories that trigger Id and
Superego to reduce the
Repression anxiety.
Have limitations
 Declaring unpleasant
memories and amotions to
be untrue.
Denial Ignoring the reality
 Converting the unpleasant
emotion/experience into a
more socially acceptable
form.( Poem, Music, Art )
Sublimation
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PSYCHOTHERAPHY
Psychotherapy
A variety of treatments that
aim to help a person identify
and change troubling
emotions, thoughts, and
behaviors.
Also called as Talk Therapy.
Main goal is to make
Unconscious, Conscious.
 2 Parts of
Psychotherapy
Free Association
Transference
The client freely shares
his/ her thoughts, words,
and anything else that Free
comes to mind.
Therapist will analyze the
Association
clients thought and behavior.
the act of the client
unknowingly transferring
feelings about someone Transference
from their past onto the
therapist.
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