Lecture 3 - Jung and Horney Flashcards
Post-Freudian Theorists
Psychologists who built upon Freud’s psychoanalytic theory but diverged from some of his key concepts. They generally accepted the importance of the unconscious but placed less emphasis on sexual drives and focused more on social and cultural influences on personality development.
Collective Unconscious
A core concept in Carl Jung’s analytic psychology, referring to a shared, universal level of the unconscious mind that contains archetypes, or primordial images and symbols representing fundamental human experiences and motivations.
Archetypes
In Jungian psychology, universal, inherited patterns of thought and behaviour residing in the collective unconscious. Archetypes represent fundamental human experiences and motivations, such as the mother, the hero, the shadow, and the anima/animus.
Persona
An archetype in Jungian psychology, referring to the social mask we present to the world, often conforming to social expectations and roles.
Shadow
An archetype in Jungian psychology, representing the darker, hidden aspects of the personality, often associated with negative traits and impulses that are repressed or denied.
Anima/Animus
Jungian archetypes representing the feminine principle in the male psyche (anima) and the masculine principle in the female psyche (animus). Jung believed that integrating these archetypes was essential for psychological wholeness.
Self
In Jungian psychology, the central archetype representing the striving for unity and wholeness of the personality.
Individuation
A key concept in Jungian psychology, referring to the process of psychological development and self-discovery, integrating the conscious and unconscious aspects of the personality to achieve wholeness.
Introversion
A psychological attitude, in Jungian theory, characterized by an orientation toward the inner world of thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
Extroversion
A psychological attitude, in Jungian theory, characterized by an orientation toward the external world of people and things.
Psychological Types
Jung’s theory of personality that combines two attitudes (introversion and extroversion) with four functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition) to create eight distinct personality types.
Neurosis
In Karen Horney’s theory, a psychological disturbance characterized by anxiety, insecurity, and maladaptive coping mechanisms, often stemming from early childhood experiences of interpersonal conflict and a lack of security in relationships.
Basic Anxiety
A central concept in Horney’s theory, referring to a pervasive feeling of helplessness and insecurity in a hostile world. Horney believed that basic anxiety arises from childhood experiences of parental indifference, inconsistency, or domination.
Neurotic Needs
In Horney’s theory, ten irrational needs that arise from basic anxiety and drive individuals to seek security and validation in unhealthy ways. These needs include an excessive need for approval, a need for a dominant partner, and a need to exploit others.
Neurotic Trends
Three patterns of interpersonal behaviour that individuals develop in response to basic anxiety, according to Horney. These are:
○ Moving Toward People
○ Moving Against People
○ Moving Away From People
