Personality
An individual’s pattern of
thinking, feeling and acting.
Freud’s Psychodynamic Approach
STRUCTURE
1) People have basic impulses and urges related
to food, water, sex, aggression, love etc.
2) He calls these urges INSTINCTS
3) Personality develops as we struggle to satisfy
urges and it is reflected in the way we go
about doing so.
Id
Ego
Superego
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
• Fathered by Sigmund
Freud.
• Idea of the ________
(id’s psychic energy)
moving to different parts
of our body.
• Stages of Psycho-Sexual
Development
1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latent
5. Genital
Sigmund Freud
Oral Stage (0-18 months)
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Anal Stage (18-36 months)
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Phallic Stage (3-6 years)
• Self stimulation of genitals
• _________ (males) and __________ (females)
is conflict.
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• Traits- Flirting, promiscuity or overly modest,
timid
Latency and Genital Stages
Latency (6-12)
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Genital (puberty - on)
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Defense Mechanisms
• The ego has a pretty
important job…and
that is to protect you
from threatening
thoughts in our
unconscious.
• One way it protects
us is through defense
mechanisms.
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Repression
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• When asked about Jasmine, Brandon may
say “Who?, I have not thought about her
for awhile.”
• Why don’t we remember our Oedipus and
Electra complexes?
Denial
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• Brandon may act like he is still
together with Jasmine. He may hang
out by her locker and plan dates with
her.
Displacement
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• Often displaced on less threatening
things.
• Brandon may take his anger on another
kid by bullying.
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Projection
• Brandon insists that Jasmine still cares
for him.
• Things we’re ashamed of, we see in other
people
Reaction Formation
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• Cootie stage in Freud’s Latent Development.
• Brandon claims he hates Jasmine.
Regression
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• Brandon begins to sleep with his
favorite childhood stuffed animal- Mr.
Wiggles.
Rationalization
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• Brandon thinks he will find a better
girlfriend. “Jasmine was not all that anyway!”
• I really did want to go to ……..anyway, it was
too ……
Intellectualization
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• Brandon starts doing a research paper on
failed teenage romances.
• What type of problems or stresses do you
think usually result in this defense
mechanism?
Sublimation
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• Sometimes a healthy defense mechanism.
• Brandon angry at break up so starts to
learn how to play the guitar and writing
songs (or maybe starts to body build).
Compensation
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• Eg. Person feels physically inferior may put all
effort into schoolwork and become best student
Fantasy
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Criticisms of Freud
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Carl Jung’s Analytic Psychology
• Neo-Freudian approach
• Emphasized a more general life force
– Focused toward creativity, growth-oriented
conflict resolution, and productive adjustment
of basic impulses in light of real-world demands
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• Collective unconscious
Neo-Freudians
Psychodynamic Theories
• Eric Erickson
• Carl Jung and his concept of the “personal”
and “collective” unconscious.
• Alfred Adler and his ideas of _______ and
__________.
• Adler also talked __________ order and
how it played a part in personality.
Neo-Freudians
Psychodynamic Theories
• Karen Horney said Freud sexist with the “penis
envy” and there is an actual “womb envy”.
• Men create things like governments, buildings,
companies, armies, because they cannot create life
• Matina Horner
• Women have a fear of success
• Nancy Chodorow
• Goes into more detail about the Oedipus Complex and
thinks women have a harder time reconciling love for
father, mother and the relationship between the two!
Psychoanalysis Today
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Couch sitting
____________ is likely to happen.
The idea is to delve into your unconscious.
Pull out _____________.
Then talk about the _____________.
Getting into the Unconscious
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• Dream Interpretation
• Free Association (having them just
randomly talk to themselves…and then
interpreting the conversation).
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TAT Test
Thematic Apperception Test
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• Their answers reveal the manifest
content.
• They can then discover the Latent
Content.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
• The most widely used projective test
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