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| The second stage of development, centered around issues in toilet training. |
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| The investment of energy in suppressing an impulse or image. |
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| Biologically programmed cell death. |
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| A boy's fear (from the phallic stage) that his father will perceive him as a rival and castrate him. |
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| The release of emotional tension. |
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| The investment of psychic energy in a desired activity or image. |
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| The part of the superego that punishes violations of moral standards. |
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| The part of the mind that holds what one is currently aware of. |
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| death instincts (Thanatos) |
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| Self-destructive instincts, often turned outward as aggression. |
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| The shifting of an impulse from its original target to a different target. |
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| The rational part of the personality that deals pragmatically with reality. |
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| Binding psychic energy in an ego-guided activity. |
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| The part of the superego that represents perfection and rewards for good behavior. |
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| The ability of the ego to function despite the competing demands of the id, superego, and reality. |
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| A sexually responsive area of the body. |
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| The condition of being partly stuck in a stage of psychosexual development. |
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| The final stage of development, characterized by mature and mutual sexual involvement with another. |
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| The original, primitive component of personality; the source of all energy. |
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| To develop feelings of similarity to and connectedness with another person. |
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| Absorbing the values of one's parents into one's superego. |
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| The period in which the crises of the phallic stage give way to a temporary calm. |
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| The collective energy of the life instincts. |
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life instincts
or sexual instincts (Eros) |
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| Survival and sexual instincts. |
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| The mix of desire for the opposite-sex parents and fear of or hatred for the same-sex parent. |
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| The first stage of psychosexual development, in which oral needs create a crisis over weaning. |
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| A girl's envy of males, from feelings of having been castrated. |
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| The third stage of development, in which a crisis occurs over sexual desire for the opposite-sex parents. |
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| The idea that impulses should be gratified immediately. |
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| The region of the mind that corresponds to ordinary memory. |
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| The id process that creates an unconscious image of a desired object. |
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| The idea that actions must take into account the constraints of external reality. |
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| The ego's checking to see whether plans will work before they are put into action. |
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| Preventing an idea or impulse from becoming conscious. |
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| The ego process of rationally seeking an object to satisfy a desire. |
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| Freud's model of three components of personality. |
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| Altering an unacceptable id impulse to an activity that more socially acceptable. |
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| The component of personality that seeks moral perfection. |
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| Freud's model of three regions, or areas, of the mind. |
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| The region of the mind that's not accessible to consciousness. |
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| The creation of an unconscious image of a desired object. |
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