How Freud May Explain Habits. a List of Habits Explained Using the Psychodynamic Approach to Psychology

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How Freud may explain habits. A list of habits explained using the psychodynamic approach to psychology. – Am I borderline or not?

Posted on February 12, 2017 by borderlineornot

How Freud may explain habits. A list of habits explained using the psychodynamic approach to psychology. I d e c i d e d t o l i g h t e n m y m o o d t o d a y, a n d p r e t t y m u c h d i s t r a c t myself. (I havent blogged in a few days) I thought, I love psychology, blogging is a distraction, let’s do something fun with it today…. I find the psychodynamic Theory, in general, well…fascinating, and amusing. I don’t necessarily believe this theory, but funnily enough, theories like freuds, actually DO make a lot of sense….i underdstand what he was trying to say, and it really isn’t all that bonkers! Soooo I’ve made a list of habits and tried to explain them as if Freud was still here today, these are only my opinions

lets just clear a few things up… Myth 1: Psychoanalysis is all about sex. Fact; it’s actually more about the individual human experience and the workings of the unconscious than it is about sex per se. Myth 2: Psychoanalysis never ends. Fact; it takes time, because it aims at a deep understanding of oneself and a significant change in healing.Termination and ending of psychoanalysis is an important part of the process and often, the most enriching part. Myth 3: Psychoanalysts require that you lay on the couch. Fact; Traditionally, it is true that psychoanalysts still use the couch and when you lay down, the relationship you develop with your own speech is different from when you are si��ing face‑to‑face. However, you do not need to lay on the couch. In fact, it can be counter‑productive. Myth 4: Psychoanalysis only focuses on the past.

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Fact; There is no time in the unconscious. The past is used to inform the present and to look into the future but the most important time in psychoanalysis is the here‑ and‑now. Myth 5: Psychoanalysis is not supported by research. Fact; Psychoanalytic theory and practice has been fundamental for research in the areas of a��achment, infant development, the parent‑infant bond and trauma to name a few. Myth 6: Psychoanalysis is not for children and adolescents. Fact; Psychoanalysis takes a different shape and form when working with children and adolescents. The use of play, drawings, modelling and fantasy take precedence over the traditional talk therapy, simply because children are not as articulate as adults Myth 7: Psychoanalysis = Freud. Fact; Although Freud is the father of psychoanalysis and his contribution to the “talking cure” is fundamental, Freud does not equal psychoanalysis. Myth 8: The unconscious does not exist. Fact: Believe it or not, the unconscious does exist and psychoanalytic practice, which has changed dramatically since its invention, has proven it over and over again throughout the years. The question is, do you want to know about your unconscious? Do you wish to have a deeper understanding of yourself and your actions? Many factors go into influencing personality, including genetics, environment, parenting, and societal variables. Perhaps most importantly, it is the ongoing interaction of all of these influences that continues to shape personality over time. Habits are formed through our personality!

Remember…. Freud wasn’t obsessed with sex, he is saying WE ARE

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development Freud (1905) proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place in a series of fixed stages. These are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of libido (roughly translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a different area of the body. As a person grows physically certain areas of their body become important as sources of potential frustration (erogenous zones), pleasure or both.

(I do believe that the term ‘sexual drives’ should be replaced with ‘sensual’) Freud believed that life was built round tension and pleasure. Freud also believed that all tension was due to the build up of libido (sexual energy) and that all pleasure came from its discharge. https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychody… In describing human personality development as psychosexual Freud meant to

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In describing human personality development as psychosexual Freud meant to convey that what develops is the way in which sexual energy accumulates and is discharged as we mature biologically. (NB Freud used the term ‘sexual’ in a very general way to mean all pleasurable actions and thoughts). Freud stressed that the first five years of life are crucial to the formation of adult personality. The id must be controlled in order to satisfy social demands; this sets up a conflict between frustrated wishes and social norms. The ego and superego develop in order to exercise this control and direct the need for gratification into socially acceptable channels. Gratification centers in different areas of the body at different stages of growth, making the conflict at each stage psychosexual.

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The Role of Conflict Each of the psychosexual stages is associated with a particular conflict that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage. The resolution of each of these conflicts requires the expenditure of sexual energy and the more energy that is expended at a particular stage the more the important characteristics of that stage remain with the individual as he/she matures psychologically. To explain this Freud suggested the analogy of military troops on the march. As the troops advance, they are met by opposition or conflict. If they are highly successful in winning the ba��le (resolving the conflict) then most of the troops (libido) will be able to move on to the next ba��le (stage). But the greater the difficulty encountered at any particular point the greater the need for troops to remain behind to fight and thus the fewer that will be able to go on to the next confrontation.

Frustration, Overindulgence and Fixation Some people do not seem to be able to leave one stage and proceed on to the next. One reason for this may be that the needs of the developing individual at any particular stage may not have been adequately met in which case there is frustration. Or possibly the person’s needs may have been so well satisfied that he/she is reluctant to leave the psychological benefits of a particular stage in which there is overindulgence. Both frustration and overindulgence (or any combination of the two) may lead to what psychoanalysts call fixation at a particular psychosexual stage. Fixation refers to the theoretical notion that a portion of the individual’s libido has been permanently ‘invested’ in a particular stage of his development. It is assumed that some libido is permanently invested in each psychosexual stage and thus each person will behave in some ways that are characteristic of infancy, or early childhood.

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Oral Stage (01 year) In the first stage of personality development the libido is centered in a baby’s mouth. It gets much satisfaction from pu��ing all sorts of things in its mouth to satisfy the libido, and thus its id demands. Which at this stage in life are oral, or mouth orientated, such as sucking, biting, and breastfeeding. Freud said oral stimulation could lead to an oral fixation in later life. We see oral personalities all around us such as smokers, nail‑biters, finger‑chewers, and thumb suckers. Oral personalities engage in such oral behaviors, particularly when under stress.


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Anal Stage (13 years) The libido now becomes focused on the anus and the child derives great pleasure from defecating. The child is now fully aware that they are a person in their own right and that their wishes can bring them into conflict with the demands of the outside world (i.e. their ego has developed). Freud believed that this type of conflict tends to come to a head in po��y training, in which adults impose restrictions on when and where the child can defecate. The nature of this first conflict with authority can determine the child’s future relationship with all forms of authority. Early or harsh po��y training can lead to the child becoming an anal‑retentive personality who hates mess, is obsessively tidy, punctual and respectful of authority. They can be stubborn and tight‑fisted with their cash and possessions. This is all related to pleasure got from holding on to their faeces when toddlers, and their mum’s then insisting that they get rid of it by placing them on the po��y until they perform!


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essence, they are ‘sharing their s**t’!’ An anal‑expulsive personality is also messy, disorganized and rebellious.

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Phallic Stage (3 to 5 or 6 years) Sensitivity now becomes concentrated in the genitals and masturbation (in both sexes) becomes a new source of pleasure. The child becomes aware of anatomical sex differences, which sets in motion the conflict between erotic a��raction, resentment, rivalry, jealousy and fear which Freud called the Oedipus complex (in boys) and the Electra complex (in girls). https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychody…

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This is resolved through the process of identification, which involves the child adopting the characteristics of the same sex parent.

Oedipus Complex

The most important aspect of the phallic stage is the Oedipus complex. This is one of Freud’s most controversial ideas and one that many people reject outright. The name of the Oedipus complex derives from the Greek myth where Oedipus, a young man, kills his father and marries his mother. Upon discovering this he pokes his eyes out and becomes blind. This Oedipal is the generic (i.e. general) term for both Oedipus and Electra complexes. In the young boy, the Oedipus complex or more correctly, conflict, arises because the boy develops sexual (pleasurable) desires for his mother. He wants to possess his mother exclusively and get rid of his father to enable him to do so. Irrationally, the boy thinks that if his father were to find out about all this, his father would take away what he loves the most. During the phallic stage what the boy loves most is his penis. Hence the boy develops castration anxiety. https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychod… The li��le boy then sets out to resolve this problem by imitating, copying and joining

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The li��le boy then sets out to resolve this problem by imitating, copying and joining in masculine dad‑type behaviors. This is called identification, and is how the three‑to‑five year old boy resolves his Oedipus complex. Identification means internally adopting the values, a��itudes and behaviors of another person. The consequence of this is that the boy takes on the male gender role, and adopts an ego ideal and values that become the superego.

Electra Complex For girls, the Oedipus or Electra complex is less than satisfactory. Briefly, the girl desires the father, but realizes that she does not have a penis. This leads to the development of penis envy and the wish to be a boy. The girl resolves this by repressing her desire for her father and substituting the wish for a penis with the wish for a baby. The girl blames her mother for her ‘castrated state’ and this creates great tension. The girl then represses her feelings (to remove the tension) and identifies with the mother to take on the female gender role.

Latency Stage (5 or 6 to puberty)

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No further psychosexual development takes place during this stage (latent means hidden). The libido is dormant. Freud thought that most sexual impulses are repressed during the latent stage and sexual energy can be sublimated (re: defense mechanisms) towards school work, hobbies and friendships. Much of the child’s energy is channeled into developing new skills and acquiring new knowledge and play becomes largely confined to other children of the same gender.

Genital Stage (puberty to adult) This is the last stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory of personality development and begins in puberty. It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful resolution of which is se��ling down in a loving one‑to‑one relationship with another person in our 20’s. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self pleasure like during the phallic stage. For Freud, the proper outlet of the sexual instinct in adults was through heterosexual intercourse. Fixation and conflict may prevent this with the consequence that sexual perversions may develop. For example, fixation at the oral stage may result in a person gaining sexual pleasure primarily from kissing and oral sex, rather than sexual intercourse.

SO….remember… ID – unconscious, ‘I want’ part of the mind (all a baby is born with)

EGO – reality complex

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SUPER‑EGO – moral conscience They determine what decisions we make

It’s possible that at either the oral, anal, or phallic stage, a child could have been introduced to a ‘stressor’. The stressor could be anything from a big dog (if you have a fear of dogs dating back to childhood) to neglect. Depending on which stage the ‘stressor’ occurred at, a child would have used different coping strategies depending on how much their mind has developed. You can get ‘FIXATED’ at one of these stages, meaning that every time you feel stress, you subconsciously ‘REGRESS’ back to that mind set in order to feel be��er, whether that’s chewing a pen, or being defensive. Apparently a ‘HABIT’ is when you subconsciously do these behaviours to relieve unconscious stress.

Sooo here’s my list of habits… Some habits are objectively bad, e.g., smoking kills you. Other habits like “sleeping in” depend on context, like if it’s making you late for work. And still other habits aren’t really either good or bad, it’s just personal preference. https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychod… Freud argued that in order to protect our egos from anxiety and unwanted desires of the

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Freud argued that in order to protect our egos from anxiety and unwanted desires of the id we employ defense mechanisms to distort reality. Habits then become repetitive and a learned behaviour

Swearing

fixated in the Phallic stage

. Driven by your ID

to protect your EGO

Why…? it’s an emotional response, Freud said that awkward impulses related to sex and aggression need to be channeled outward because they can’t just be repressed, just take a moment and think of the kind of swear words we use… we are at our most vulnerable during the sex act. So swearing is projecting on to others when you feel vulnerable (you are protecting your bits) Phallic‑stage fixation traits include:a girl becoming a woman who continually strives to dominate men (viz. penis envy), either as an unusually seductive woman (high self‑ esteem) or as an unusually submissive woman (low self‑esteem). In a boy, a phallic‑stage fixation might be conducive to becoming a vain, over‑ambitious man. Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex are most important in developing the infantile super‑ ego, because, by identifying with a parent, the child internalizes Morality, thereby, he or she chooses to comply with societal rules, rather than having to comply reflexively, from fear of punishment.

Picking Your Nose

Phallic Stage Regression

at times of stress ok, this is a li��le odd…

Freud began to see a phallic/vaginal relationship in the act of sticking one’s finger in one’s nose. In picking your nose, according to this notion, you may be engaging in a copying form of the sex act — and, since your nasal tissues inflame during https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychod… sexual arousal, it seemed as if one could actually achieve sexual satisfaction this

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sexual arousal, it seemed as if one could actually achieve sexual satisfaction this way.

Biting Fingernails

You have regressed to the Oral Stage of development during stress. You could have been introduced to a stressor at this age, and sort comfort in your primitive needs (food, drink etc) as a coping strategy, which you have progressed through your life.

Your ID

is protecting your EGO

Freud blamed it on arrested psycho‑sexual development, at the oral stage (of course). Typical to Freudian theories, oral fixation is linked to many causes, such as under‑ feeding or over‑feeding, breast‑feeding too long, or problematic relationship with your mother…its your mums fault…

Drinking Alcohol/Coffee/fizzy drinks

Again, Oral Stage,

driven by your ID

to protect your EGO

You just need to subconsciously comfort yourself by pu��ing something in your mouth (like a baby would)

https://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/howfreudmayexplainhabitsalistofhabitsexplainedusingthepsychod… It wad suggested that, dependency needs can be traced to their early years. They claim

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It wad suggested that, dependency needs can be traced to their early years. They claim that when parents fail to satisfy a young child’s need for nurturance, the child is likely to grow up depending excessively on others for help and comfort, trying to find the nurturance that was lacking during their early years. If this search for outside support includes experimentation with a drug, the person may well develop a dependent relationship with the drug which then leads to substance abuse

Watching Reality Television Freud could say that this is either

A Latency regression we are watching and learning about social interactions, in times of stress you subconsciously want to learn in order to ‘fit in’

probably driven by your SUPER‑EGO

to protect your EGO

OR….

A Phallic fixation

driven by our ID

concerned with emotions and relations, probably

protecting your EGO

in the latency stage sexual urges are diverted into sports and hobbies. Same‑sex friends also help avoid sexual feelings.

Eating Fast Food/Chocolate/Chewing Gum/Nibbling While Cooking/Snacking

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defiantly an Oral Fixation,

you are gaining comfort through your mouth,

and is a primitive instinct Freud said that if a baby gets too much or too li��le oral stimulation, the baby might be permanently affected, this person is trying to recapture a lost paradise in the oral stage, or perhaps making up for deficiencies in gratification during that stage.

Emotional Shopping/Spending On Credit Cards Again this depends on context and could probably be either

Oral Fixation

if you are emotionally buying food for example

OR…

latency regression driven by ‘wanting to fit in’ learning through our interactions, like clothes shopping or even gadget shopping

regardless this is your

coming into play to protect your EGO

Facebook/Twitter

again is this Latency?

a way of learning….

OR


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Regression to the Anal Stage, subcategories as an Anal expulsive

you just want to share….your sh*t… An Anal Expulsive personality can exhibit cruelty, emotional outbursts, disorganization, self‑confidence, (sometimes) artistic ability, generosity, rebelliousness and general carelessness

Speaking With Your Mouth Full

An Anal Expulsive personality share your thoughts and ideas…your sh*t…

you just cant wait to

In adulthood the anal expulsive is the person who wants to share things with you. They like giving things away. In essence, they are ‘sharing their s**t’!’ An anal‑expulsive personality is also messy, disorganized and rebellious.

All Work And No Play Through work, people seek to fulfil deeper unconscious desires. Some people ‘sublimate’ or channel into work most of their physical and emotional energies. Yet others work hard to build their self‑esteem, to earn the respect of others or ostentatiously to display commitment to their organization. Some may work non‑stop as workaholics to outperform their rivals (often acting like children seeking a special affection in the heart of a parent) or, equally, to dodge domestic obligations towards spouses, children and other ‘loved ones’. Some may even work as a means of overcoming their fear of death, seeking immortality in the legacy which they may leave.


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Smoking/Smoking eCigarettes whats that? you are pu��ing things in your mouth? Oral Stage fixation! often people say smoking helps them deal with stress….is it the chemicals? or just finding comfort via your mouth like a baby would?

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Oral fixation has two possible outcomes. The Oral receptive personality is preoccupied with eating/drinking and reduces tension through oral activity such as eating, drinking, smoking, biting nails. They are generally passive, needy and sensitive to rejection. They will easily ‘swallow’ other people’s ideas. The Oral aggressive personality is hostile and verbally abusive to others, using mouth‑ based aggression.

Biting Your Pen/Pencil Oral stage, are you dealing with unconscious stress by unconsciously regressing to this stage of development? when do you chew your pen? when you are thinking?

Overeating/Lying/argumentative we do these behaviours to protect our characters, it’s a defense mechanism. because it is driven by emotions, Freud could say that you have regressed to the phallic stage of development

and your ID is coming through

Lying – Freud believed that when we explain our own behaviour to ourselves or others (conscious mental activity) we rarely give a true account of our motivation. This is not because we are deliberately lying. Whilst human beings are great deceivers of others, they are even more adept at self‑deception. Our rationalizations of our conduct are therefore disguising the real reason

Interrupting Someone/rambling/Repeating yourself/Telling Secrets/Talking in Class/Talking through films

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Freud would say this is typical Anal Expulsive behaviour.

you just want to be heard and to share…your sh*t. it’s almost defiantly the ID ‘I want’ ‘Me’ Or, are you protecting your vulnerabilities? stage?

in the phallic

whining/Complaining Complaining and whining can be distinguished by the nature of the dissatisfaction and by our motivation for expressing it. Complaining involves voicing fair and legitimate dissatisfaction with the goal of a��aining a resolution or remedy. When we voice legitimate dissatisfactions but do so without the goal of a��aining a resolution we are merely venting. And when the dissatisfactions we voice are trivial or inconsequential and not worthy of special a��ention, we are whining. The distinction is significant because complaining, venting, and whining, have very different effects on our psychology and emotions. How we complain affects us in substantial ways, many of which we fail to realize. They impact us materially,emotionally, physically, and psychologically The insecure person frequently complains that things aren’t good enough. People high in inferiority like to show what high standards they have. You may label them as snobs, but as much as you realize they’re pu��ing on an act, it may be hard to shake the feeling that they really are be��er than you. What they’re trying to do, you may rightly suspect, is to proclaim their high standards as a way of asserting that not only are they be��er than everyone else, but that they hold themselves to a more rigorous set of self‑assessment criteria. So, could be the phallic stage,

protecting your bits

The child becomes aware of anatomical sex differences, which sets in motion the conflict between erotic a��raction, resentment, rivalry, jealousy and fear which Freud called the Oedipus complex (in boys) and the Electra complex (in girls).

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remember, im just guessing… Are we using a defense mechanism as a coping strategy, for example, The Oral aggressive personality is hostile and verbally abusive to others, using mouth‑based aggression …. maybe if you are in introvert, this hostility is towards the self. Are you compensating? Denying? Displacing? interjecting? rationalizing? Repressing? Or anal retentive behaviour? The term anal retentive commonly abbreviated to anal, is used to describe a person who pays such a��ention to detail that it becomes an obsession and may be an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal‑retentive person. An Anal retentive personality likes to hold on to everything…

Day Dreaming/Procrastinating

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Do you have high standards? Do you expect a lot from yourself, day‑in and day‑ out? Do you love it when life is organized and orderly? Do you try to do your best at everything you do? There is a word for people like you: perfectionists. You worry over life’s details, anxious to make every event just so. And you might like to know that some believe that your perfectionism is the root cause of procrastination. Sigmund Freud, for example, thought it was due to death anxiety—we delay because we live in fear of life’s ultimate deadline. In particular, the anxiety produced by perfectionists supposedly induces procrastination. We delay because of our fear of failure, anxious about living up to sky‑high standards. Soooo, anal retentive behaviour

…holding on to things

Picking Fights/Being Unfriendly All driven by emotions like aggression, jealousy, possession, so you are fixated in the phallic stage of development

you are protecting your vulnerable bits

Argumentative people score lower on impulse control: They tend to do or say things without thinking of the potential consequences. Argumentative people score lower on resilience: Basically, they don’t deal with stress or hardship very well and as a result, take their frustration out on others. Argumentative people score lower on problem‑solving: The inability to effectively solve life’s problems can lead to stress and, as indicated above, a greater likelihood that these frustrations will be taken out on others. Argumentative people score lower on self‑esteem: What’s the “best” way to make yourself feel slightly be��er about your own shortcomings and the things you hate about yourself? Point out other people’s shortcomings.

Pinching Pennies Anal retention phase! These personalities can be stubborn and tight‑fisted with their cash and possessions. this is because they get comfort from holding on to things anal retentive personality,” is a personality marked by excessive orderliness, extreme meticulousness,and often suspicion and reserve. According to psychoanalysis, an anal personality is formed in earlychildhood as a result of efforts to control bowelmovements


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Spitting Phallic repressions, as it can mimic ejaculation, and can be done as a form of aggression, which could also indicate an oral aggressive personality The Oral aggressive personality is hostile and verbally abusive to others, using mouth‑based aggression.

Picking Scabs/Popping Zits/Hair Picking/Skin Picking If you go up to the top of the Empire State Building and you look over the edge, there’s always a part of you that would like to jump. Not because you want to kill yourself, but because there’s a strong urge towards the unknown concept of death —that which we do not understand.” Similarly, we are instinctively drawn towards the mystery of what, exactly, lies inside of us. What are we extracting? What is this foreign body under our skin? People who are generally impatient, or who get bored or frustrated easily, are more likely to engage in repetitive body‑focused behaviors such as skin‑picking, or eyelash‑pulling So Freud would probably say you are stuck in the anal stage and still exploring your body, like a child would

Biting Your Toe Nails

Oral fixation

wanting immediate gratification.

controlled by your ID

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Freud distinguished between two kinds of anxiety: “realistic anxiety“, i.e. fear of actual danger, and what he called “neurotic anxiety,” which stems from internal psychic conflicts. He also said that anxiety can be a stand‑in for almost any feeling that transforms itself or discharges into the form of anxiety. The symptom of anxiety is understood as having an unconscious meaning, specific and unique to the individual, who presents with it. Each individual will have their own coping strategy to deal with the stress

Hoarding Anal retentive

behaviour/fixation

Compulsive hoarding, along with other types of OCD, are thought to be symptoms of an anal‑retentive personality. Hoarders are, by nature, very obsessive about the objects they collect and tend to become anxious and distressed at the mere thought of throwing them away. This desire to cling onto their possessions is, in Freudian terms, a by‑product of their parents punishing them for a lack of bowel or bladder control during childhood. Therefore, the possessions they collect during adulthood are in fact subconscious representations of the ‘possessions’ they lost control of during childhood. Today, Freud’s theory is generally seen as out‑dated and inaccurate but experts have yet to disprove it entirely.

Being A KnowIt All/Bragging/Exaggerating/OneUpping

Anal expulsive?

Or phallic regression. …protecting your bits..

Psychoanalysis considered exaggerations were the products of displacement, overvaluations for example being used to maintain a repression elsewhere.

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The grandiose sense of self‑importance observed in narcissists also uses exaggeration to thwart any recognition of a moderate fallibility, seeing any departure from complete success as total and hopeless failure. Once we have a negative sense of ourselves, we need to find something that makes us feel good about ourselves, something that makes us feel able to survive and worthy of surviving. I call these survival‑strategy behaviors, because they feel to us as if we need them to survive. They are formed early in life when we accidentally do something and get a positive response from parents or some other person who is important to us. That positive response makes us feel good about ourselves. After a few repetitions, we conclude, “What makes me good enough and important is… being successful, or doing things for people, or my accomplishments, or having people think well of me.” “What makes me good enough and important is having people think well of me” is the most common survival‑strategy belief and that’s why bragging is so common. 1.

The insecure person tries to make you feel insecure yourself. Is an individual always broadcasting his or her strengths? If you don’t feel insecure in general, but only around certain people, it’s likely they’re projecting their insecurities onto you. 2. The insecure person needs to showcase his or her accomplishments. People who are constantly bragging about their great lifestyle, their elite education, or their fantastic children may very well be doing so to convince themselves that they really do have worth. 3. The insecure person drops the “humble brag” far too often. The humble brag is a brag disguised as a self‑derogatory statement. You’ve all seen these on Facebook, when an acquaintance complains about all the travel she has to take (due to the importance of her job), or all the time he has to spend watching his kids play (and, by the way, win) hockey games. (The “Facebook gloat” is a bold‑faced brag which is easier to spot but may very well have the same roots.)

Thumb Sucking Oral fixation

, pu��ing something in your mouth helps comfort you im times of stress, unconscious or conscious.

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Anal expulsive behaviour

, all about sharing. …

We humans are evolutionarily set up to judge and talk about others, no ma��er how hurtful it might be. so we use gossip as social glue. Gossip establishes group boundaries and boosts self‑esteem, studies have found. In many instances, the goal of gossip is not truth or accuracy. What ma��ers is the bond that gossiping can forge, often at the expense of a third party. all very…odd…isn’t it Other approaches to psychology can be found here Psychodynamic Approach to behaviour? Can I use this to help me with my mental illness and change my behaviour? (h��ps://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/ psychodynamic‑approach‑to‑behaviour‑can‑i‑use‑this‑to‑help‑me‑with‑my‑mental‑ illness‑and‑change‑my‑behaviour/) Behaviourism, my psychological approach to mental illness (h��ps://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/ behaviourism‑my‑psychological‑approach‑to‑mental‑illness/) Sociocultural Psychological Perspective, anything here that will help with mental illness? You’d be surprised! (h��ps://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/ sociocultural‑psychological‑perspective‑anything‑here‑that‑will‑help‑with‑mental‑ illness‑youd‑be‑surprised/) A fascinating journey – Biological Approach to mental illness. Can you just rely on medication? (h��ps://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/ a‑fascinating‑journey‑biological‑approach‑to‑mental‑illness‑can‑you‑just‑rely‑on‑ medication/) Cognitive psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and mental illness… and the walking corpse syndrome – fascinating (h��ps://borderlinepersonalitydisorderdiagnosisjourney.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/ cognitive‑psychology‑cognitive‑behavioural‑therapy‑cbt‑and‑mental‑illness‑and‑ the‑walking‑corpse‑syndrome‑fascinating/)


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How Freud may explain habits. A list of habits explained using the psychodynamic approach to psychology. – Am I borderline or not? Advertisements

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