Psy 306 HISTORY OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
Spring 2006
Instructor: Art Warmoth
STUDY GUIDE #3

4 weeks

PSYCHOANALYSIS ("SUBJECTIVITY")

Objectives:

Readings:
Sigmund Freud. Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
 
ARTICLES:
Alfred Adler. "What Really Is a Neurosis?" from Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind
C. G. Jung.  "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis" from Collected Works, vol. 16
Karen Horney. "Feasibility & Desirability of Self-Analysis" from Self- Analysis & "Feminine Psychology" from New Ways in Psychoanalysis.
Erich Fromm.  "Freedom--A Psychological Problem?" from Escape From Freedom
 
Click here for an Annotated Bibliography on Psychoanalysis
Video Assignments:
Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny & Alexander
The Persuaders
 
Key Terms (Finding most of these terms will require library research--see "Annotated Bibliography" link above):
FREUD

Id
Ego
Superego
Libido
Anxiety
Defense Mechanisms
Identification
Sublimation
Projection Finalism
Fixation
Regression
Repression
Resistance
Transference
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 JUNG

Archetypes
Syzygy
Self
Shadow
Complex
Mandala
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious

ADLER

Social Interest
Creative Self
Style of Life
Inferiority Complex
Striving for Superiority
Fictional Finalism

ERICH FROMM

"Biophilous" & "Necrophilous" Character Types

 

 HARRY STACK SULLIVAN

Interpersonal Theory

KAREN HORNEY

The 10 Neurotic Needs

WILHELM REICH

Character Armor
Orgasm

OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY

Object
"Good Enough" Parent

ALICE MILLER

Poisonous Pedagogy

 
STUDY QUESTIONS (Complete for Credit):

Match the correct definition to the key terms (may be submitted individually or as a study/suppport group).

Part A. Key Terms

____ Transference

____ Identification

____ Archetypes

____ Shadow

____ Syzygy

____ Social Interest

____ Projection

____ Libido

____ Latency Period

____ Defense Mechanism

____ Mandala

 Part B. Definitions

1. The images that live in the collective unconscious.

2. Anima + Animus.

3. According to Jung, generalized psychic energy.

4. Unconscious mental mechanisms which prevent the individual from experiencing anxiety.

5. The archetype that incorporates and expresses the negative aspects of the personality.

6. A defense mechanism that involves taking on the personality characteristics of another person, usually someone who is admired.

7. A widely observed archetypal symbol of psychological integration.

8. The tendency to project parental characteristics and issues on to the psychoanalyst.

9. A defense mechanism characterized by attributing undesirable characteristics of the self to another person.

10. The psychosexual stage preceding adolescence.

11. A key motivator in Alfred Adler's theory.

12. Attributing one's own personality characteristics to another or taking another's characteristic as one's own

Multiple Choice

1. Which theorist has the most optimistic view of the content and dynamics of the unconscious?

a. Freud
b. Jung
c. Harry Stack Sullivan
d. Henry James
2. According to Freud, at any given stage of development, the areas of the body on which sexual pleasure was concentrated was called the:
a. G spot
b. erogenous zone
c. naughty part
d. thanatos
3. "Individuation" is
a. The process of identity formation during the adolescent identity crisis.
b. The process of self- growth by which the individual seeks to unify the various aspects of his personality into a spiritually whole self.
c. The process of overcoming the "inferiority complex."
4. What do the major neo-Freudians have in common?
a. The all accept Freud's basic theory of the id, ego, and super-ego.
b. They are all concerned with how social influences shape individual lives, particularly in the form of relationships or interactions with other people.
c. They see mental illness as a form of maladaptive behavior, which does not work to serve the patient's welfare.
d. All of the above
5. The disease in which a patient loses a normal physical ability for psychological reasons is called:
a. dysfunction
b. anal retentive
c. hysteria
d. All of the above
6. Which of the following was NOT concerned with social philosophy and criticism?
a. Erich Fromm
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Ivan Pavlov
d. Karen Horney
7. Who was the founder of the interpersonal school of psychology?
a. Wofgang Köhler
b. Wilhelm Reich
c. Karen Horney
d. Harry Stack Sullivan
8. Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's five stages of psychosexual development.
a. Basic trust
b. Latency
c. Anal
d. All of the above
9. Which of these psycho analysts did not see the future as an important determinant of behavior?
a. Freud
b. Adler
c. Jung
d. All of the above
10. Which of the following was NOT one of Freud's major contributions?
a. His theory of the unconscious.
b. His theory of the role of culture in the development of character types.
c. His theory of psychosexual stages.
d. His understanding of the importance of childhood experiences in adult behavior.
11. According to Freud, the ego is governed by the ______________ principle:
a. pleasure
b. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal
12. According to Freud, the id is governed by the ______________ principle:
a. pleasure
b. reality
c. primary
d. Oedipal
13. In Jung's theory, which of the following means about the same thing as "meaningful coincidence":
a. individuation
b. teleology
c. synchronicity
d. self-actualization
14. According to Jung, ______________ is the process by which the various components of the personality are recognized and given expression within the context of a person's life:
a. teleology
b. displacement
c. individuation
d. thanatos
15. Jung's theory was criticized for being all of the following except:
a. mystical
b. unscientific
c. incomprehensible
d. over-emphasizing sex
16. Adler believed that all humans started life with
a. feelings of superiority
b. weak organs
c. a collective unconscious
d. primordial guilt
17. According to Horney, the difference between neurotic and normal people regarding the use of major adjustment patterns was that:
a. only neurotics use them
b. only normal people use them
c. normal people use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas neurotics attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them
d. neurotics use all of them as they are required by varying circumstances whereas normal people attempt to deal with all of life's circumstances using only one of them
18. Horney believed that women often feel inferior to men because:
a. women are physically inferior to men
b. of penis envy
c. women are culturally inferior to men
d. anatomy is destiny
19. Who claimed that "anatomy is destiny":
a. Freud
b. Adler
c. Jung
d. Horney
20. Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander illustrates which psychoanalytic concept:
a. Sadomasochism
b. Archetypes
c. Social Interest
d. All of the above
Graded Assignment (25% of final letter grade): What is psychoanalysis? Why is it an important contribution to contemporary culture?