Vocabulary from Chapter 2 of Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson
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| 662184455 | classical psychoanalysis | The method Sigmund Freud developed that has the assumption that a patient's ills stemmed from unconscious conflicts and unacceptable urges that date back to early childhood; by adulthood, patient has developed defenses to deal with conflicts, but defenses shield him from seeing outer world and inner word, which leads to problems manifested as psychological symptoms | 1 | |
| 662184456 | unconscious | storehouse of those painful experiences and emotions, those wounds, fears, guilty desires, and unresolved conflicts we do not want to know about because we feel we will be overwhelmed by them. | 2 | |
| 662184457 | repression | the expunging from consciousness | 3 | |
| 662184458 | family | important because we are each a product of the role we are given in the family-complex | 4 | |
| 662184459 | oedipal conflict | competition with the parent of the same gender for the attention and affection of the parent of the opposite gender | 5 | |
| 662184460 | sibling rivalry | competition with siblings for the attention and affection of parents | 6 | |
| 662184461 | defense | unconscious desire not to recognize or change our destructive behavior | 7 | |
| 662184462 | selective perception | hearing and seeing only what we feel we can handle | 8 | |
| 662184463 | selective memory | modifying our memories so that we don't feel overwhelmed by them or forgetting painful events entirely | 9 | |
| 662184464 | denial | believing that the problem doesn't exist or the unpleasant incident never happened | 10 | |
| 662184465 | avoidance | staying away from people or situations that are liable to make us anxious by stirring up some unconscious (i.e. repressed) experience or emotion | 11 | |
| 662184466 | displacement | "taking it out" oh someone or something less threatening than the person who caused our fear, hurt, frustration, or anger | 12 | |
| 662184467 | projection | ascribing our fear, problem, or guilty desire to someone else and then condemning him or her for it, in order to deny that we have it ourselves | 13 | |
| 662184468 | regression | the temporary return to a former psychological state, which is not just imagined but relived | 14 | |
| 662184469 | active reversal | the acknowledgment and working through of repressed experiences and emotions | 15 | |
| 662184470 | anxiety | occurs when defenses momentarily break down | 16 | |
| 662184471 | fear of intimacy | the chronic and overpowering feeling that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy us and that we can remain emotionally safe only by remaining at an emotional distance from others at all times | 17 | |
| 662184472 | fear of abandonment | the unshakable belief that our friends and loved ones are going to desert us (physical abandonment) or don't really care about us (emotional abandonment) | 18 | |
| 662184473 | fear of betrayal | the nagging feeling that our friends and loved ones can't be trusted (not to lie, not to laugh at us behind our backs, not to cheat on us) | 19 | |
| 662184474 | low self-esteem | the belief that we are less worthy than other people and therefore, don't deserve attention, love, or any other of life's rewards and need to be punished by life in some way | 20 | |
| 662184475 | insecure or unstable sense of self | the inability to sustain a feeling of personal identity, to sustain a sense of knowing ourselves | 21 | |
| 662184476 | oedipal fixation (oedipal complex) | a dysfunctional bond with a parent of the opposite sex that we don't outgrow in adulthood and that doesn't allow us to develop mature relationships with our peers | 22 | |
| 662184477 | latent content | the hidden message | 23 | |
| 662184478 | dream displacement | using a "safe" person, event, or object as a "stand in" to represent more threatening person, event, or object | 24 | |
| 662184479 | condensation | single dream image or event to represent more than one unconscious wound or conflict | 25 | |
| 662184480 | primary revision | processes that occur while we dream (displacement and condensation) | 26 | |
| 662184481 | manifest content | what is displayed, the dream's actual image | 27 | |
| 662184482 | secondary revision | the process that takes place when we are awake | 28 | |
| 662184483 | phallic symbols | male imagery | 29 | |
| 662184484 | female imagery | caves, rooms, walled in gardens, cups, enclosures and containers | 30 | |
| 662184485 | thanatos | death drive | 31 | |
| 662184486 | eros | sex drive | 32 | |
| 662184487 | superego | the social values and taboos that we internalize (consciously or unconsciously) - feeling guilty only because we are socially programmed to feel so | 33 | |
| 662184488 | id | psychological reservoir of our instincts, gratification of prohibited desires of all kinds without an eye to consequences | 34 | |
| 662184489 | libido | sexual energy | 35 | |
| 662184490 | ego | conscious self that experiences the external world through the senses | 36 | |
| 662184491 | penis envy | envy of power, self-esteem, fun, freedom, safety from physical violation that comes with being male | 37 | |
| 662184492 | castration anxiety | fear of males that they will lose their status | 38 | |
| 662184493 | mirror stage | infant develops a sense of itself as a whole rather than a formless and fragmented mass | 39 | |
| 662184494 | imaginary order | world of images, world of perception | 40 | |
| 662184495 | desire of the mother | desire of the mother for the child and the child's desire of the mother | 41 | |
| 662184496 | symbolic order | acquisition of language | 42 | |
| 662184497 | objet petit a | "object small a" (a - autre/other) object that affects only me | 43 | |
| 662184498 | Other | anything that contributes to the creation of our subjectivity or "selfhood" | 44 | |
| 662184499 | Real | uninterpretable dimension of existence | 45 | |
| 662184500 | trauma of the Real | the meanings society has created gives nothing in place of those meanings | 46 |
