Psychology 323

The compulsion to destroy, conquer, and kill.

To Freud, a feeling of fear and dread without an obvious cause: reality anxiety is a fear of tangible dangers; neurotic anxiety involves a confl ict between id and ego; moral anxiety involves a confl ict between id and superego.

A detailed history of an individual that contains data from a variety of sources.

A boy's fear during the Oedipal period that his penis will be cut off.

The expression of emotions that is expected to lead to the reduction of disturbing symptoms.

An investment of psychic energy in an object or person.

A component of the superego that contains behaviors for which the child has been punished.

The unconscious drive toward decay, destruction, and aggression.

Strategies the ego uses to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by confl icts of everyday life. Defense mechanisms involve denials or distortions of reality.

A defense mechanism that involves denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic event.

A defense mechanism that involves shifting id impulses from a threatening object or from one that is unavailable to an object that is available; for example, replacing hostility toward one's boss with hostility toward one's child.

A technique involving the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious confl icts. Dreams have a manifest content (the actual events in the dream) and a latent content (the symbolic
meaning of the dream events).

To Freud, the rational aspect of the personality, responsible for directing and controlling the instincts according to the reality principle. To Jung, the conscious aspect of personality. To Murray, the conscious organizer of behavior; this is a broader conception than Freud's.

A component of the superego that contains the moral or ideal behaviors for which a person should strive.

During the phallic stage (ages 4 to 5), the unconscious desire of a girl for her father, accompanied by a desire to replace or destroy her mother.