PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Freudian Slip, Neurosis, Intellectualization
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 11: the working of the unconscious mind: defenses and slips. Defense mechanisms: techniques the ego uses to contain dangerous thoughts. Parapraxes: unconscious thoughts/actions that leak out: ego permits it as (cid:498)venting(cid:499) humor/jokes. Psychic conflict when a mind battles itself result is anxiety. Resist temptation of attractive other because morals and consequences : terror management theory many thought process/motivations based on an effect to deal with the truth everyone dies general uneasiness (anxiety/dislike for them) Realistic anxiety: threats to self-esteem, need some anxiety but not too much. Ego when it detects source of anxiety. Refusing to acknowledge the source of anxiety or fail to perceive it. Banished the past from your present awareness. Trying not to think about something now may prevent you from accessing that information in memory later: can backfire things that remind you of something repressed. Secondary protection from anxiety-arousing stimuli: defend against. Repressed memories dam can (cid:498)break(cid:499) when ego energy runs short.
