Freudian Perspective Guidelines
By: Jennifer Leiva
Biography of Sigmund Freud
Pribor Czech Republic
Biography of Sigmund Freud
Born: May 6, 1856, Příbor, Czech Republic
Died: September 23, 1939, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Friedrich Nietzsche
Denial
Not accepting or admitting the painful truth
Ex: The boyfriend refuses that his GF is
playing him b/c he loves her! :(Projection
Blaming our flaws/ problems on someone else!
Ex: Not studying for a test & failing it then blaming the teacher for sucking at their job!Sublimation
It’s a mature type of mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior.
Ex: I am angry so I chop wood, and I end up with firewood, more fitter and nobody is harmed.
Undoing
Trying to undo an unhealthy, destructive or otherwise threatening thought or action by doing something good.
Ex: thinking about slapping someone because they're annoying but instead you act nice and ignore them.
Regression
Reverting to an older, less mature way of handling stresses and feelings.
Ex: You and your mom get into an argument so you stomp off into your room and cry.Repression
EX: Remembering a teachers shirt but not being able to remember the design or exact detail/ pattern on it.
Reaction Formation
EX: You see someone get bullied you think your gonna help them instead you help the people bully.
Displacement
EX: Couple begins to fight the mom gets mad and the baby is crying so she hits the baby and neglects it because shes mad at the husband.
Psychosexual development
Oral Stage ( Birth-18 months)
Ex: trying lemon for the first time
Anal Stage ( 1-3 years)
EX: Toilet Training
Phallic Stage (3.5- 6 years)
EX: Why is she a girl, and I'm a boy?
Latency Stage (6-puberty)
Genital Stage (Puberty on)
Id: The pleasure Principle
EX: your a baby and you get hungry and you want food so you begin crying begging for food you don't care what you do you just want it now no matter what and you'll stop until you get it.
Characteristics:
- unorganized
- demanding and insistent
- illogical
- lacks morals
- instinctual
The Ego: reality principle
EX: Your two best friends got into a fight and they both want you to be on there side. So you explain to them you cant and you compromise the situation so your not in trouble.
The superego
EX: Sees a child grabbing a candy off the shelf without permission you tell them its incorrect and to put it back and ask for permission because it;s not nice to take things without asking.