Freudian Psychoanalysis

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Freudian Psychoanalysis

• Still popular with psychiatrists
• Instincts
• Libido

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Relationship Between the Id, Ego, Superego to the
Three Levels of Awareness
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Anxiety

• Neurotic vs. Moral
• Defense mechanisms
• Repression
• Denial
• Reaction Formation
• Projection
• Identification
• Introjection
• Displacement
• Sublimation
• Rationalization
• Compromise Formation
• Intellectualization

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Psychosexual stages

• Fixations
• Oral Stage
• Oral Incorporative
• Oral Sadistic
• Anal
• Anal Aggressive
• Anal Retentive
• Phallic
• Oedipal/Electra Complex
• Latency Period
• Genital

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Critiques

• Bleak view of human nature
• Little emphasis on free will
• Overemphasis on sex and unconsciousness
• Difficult to operationally define
• Reliance on case studies
• Still, some parts may be accurate