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Personality 419-425

Personality 419-425. A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Psychoanalytic Perspective. Of Personality. Unconscious. Conscious. Preconscious. Unconscious. Freud's Early Exploration into the Unconscious.

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Personality 419-425

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  1. Personality419-425 A person’s pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.

  2. Psychoanalytic Perspective Of Personality

  3. Unconscious Conscious Preconscious Unconscious

  4. Freud's Early Exploration into the Unconscious • Used hypnosis and free association (relax and say it all) to delve into unconscious. • Mapped out the “mental dominoes” of the patients past in a process he called psychoanalysis.

  5. Freud's Personality Structure • Ego • Superego • Id The layers of your Psyche

  6. Id • Unconscious energy that drives us to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. • Id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

  7. Superego • Part of personality that represents our internalized ideals. • Standards of judgment or our morals.

  8. Ego • The boss “executive” of the conscious. • Its job is to mediate the desires of the Id and Superego. • Called the “reality principle”.

  9. Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development • Early Childhood experiences most important. • Unresolved conflicts • Psychosexual stages. • The idfocuses its libido (sexual energy) on different erogenous zones.

  10. Oral Stage • 0-18 months • Pleasure center is on the mouth. • Sucking, biting and chewing.

  11. Anal Stage • 18-36 months • Pleasure focuses on bladder and bowel control. • Controlling ones life and independence. • Anal retentive

  12. Phallic Stage • 3-6 years • Pleasure zone is the genitals. • Coping with incestuous feelings. • Oedipus and Electra complexes.

  13. Oedipus Complex • A baby's fight for mom's attention

  14. Latency Stage • 6- puberty • Dormant sexual feeling. • Cooties stage.

  15. Genital Stage • Puberty to death. • Maturation of sexual interests.

  16. Fixation • A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage. • Happens because of unresolved conflicts.

  17. Oral Fixations

  18. Anal Fixation Anal Retentive Anal Expulsive

  19. Phallic Fixation

  20. Defense Mechanisms • The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by distorting reality. • Never aware they are occurring. • Ninemajor types.

  21. Repression • The Mac Daddy defense mechanism. • Push or banish anxiety driven thoughts deep into unconscious. • Why we do not remember lusting after our parents.

  22. Denial • Complete rejection of the truth

  23. Regression • When faced with anxiety the person retreats to a more infantile stage. • Thumb sucking on the first day of school.

  24. Reaction Formation • Ego switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. • Being mean to someone you have a crush on.

  25. Projection • Disguise your own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. • Thinking that your spouse wants to cheat on you when it is you that really want to cheat.

  26. Rationalization • Offers self-adjusting explanations in place of real, more threatening reasons for your actions. • You don’t get into a college and say, “I really did not want to go there it was too far away!!”

  27. Displacement • Shifts the unacceptable impulses towards a safer outlet. • Instead of yelling at a teacher, you will take anger out on a friend (by peeing on his car).

  28. Sublimation • Re-channel their unacceptable impulses towards more acceptable or socially approved activities. • Channel feeling of homosexuality into aggressive sports play.

  29. Compensation • Making up for an unconscious impulse that we are inferior in some way

  30. How do we assess the unconscious?425-429 We can use hypnosis or free association. A dangerous method But more often we use projective tests.

  31. Projective Tests • A personality test. • Provides an ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics. Examples Are:

  32. TAT Thematic Apperception Test • A projective test which people express their inner feelings through stories they make about ambiguous scenes

  33. TAT

  34. TAT Examples

  35. TAT Example

  36. Rorschach Inkblot Test • The most widely used projective test • A set of ten inkblots designed to identify people’s feelings when they are asked to interpret what they see in the inkblots.

  37. Rorschach Inkblot Test

  38. Rorschach Inkblot Test

  39. Rorschach Inkblot Test

  40. Rorschach Inkblot Test

  41. Neo-Freudians • Psychologists that took some premises from Freud and built upon them. Carl Jung Karen Horney Alfred Adler

  42. Alfred Adler • Childhood is important to personality. • Interested in social factors not sexual • Our behavior is driven by our efforts to conquer inferiority and feel superior. • Inferiority Complex – feelings of inadequacy • Superiority Complex – overcompensation by exaggerating accomplishments

  43. Karen Horney • Children feel helpless  anxiety • How feelings dealt with have long lasting effects on relationships • Moving towards others • Moving against • Moving away • Not just “penis envy,” “womb envy”

  44. Carl Jung • Less emphasis on social factors. • Unconscious importance • We all have a collective unconscious: a shared/inherited well of memory traces from our species history. • Made up of archetypes. • Persona = your public image

  45. Harry Potter as an example of Archetypes – who’s the father, mother, child, wise old man, hero, maiden, trickster…?

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