module 12 : personality Flashcards
personality
an enduring set of internal characteristics that produce uniqueness and consistency in the way one acts
psychodynamic perspectives
Freud
Neo freudian :
Jung
Adler
Horney
Freuds patients
all girls having “nervous disorders”
Hysteria : “uterus”
Freuds ice berg model
conscious
preconscious
unconscious
conscious
what we are aware of
preconscious
normally unaware, we can retrieve this information from memories
unconscious
most influential part, needs special techniques to access them
tools to access unconscious
hypnosis
free association
dream analysis
free association
freely share our feelings, thoughts, emotions
Therapy
dream analysis
manifest content : what the dreamer remembers
latent content : reflexion of true feelings, underlying meaning
id
how I want to behave
Pleasure principle
- sexual and agressive urges
- animalistic
- basic human needs
ego
how do I behave
Reality principle
- mediates between id and superego
- how to express id in a socially acceptable matter
superego
how should i behave
Based on morality
- compass of what’s right and wrong
- ego ideal and consciousness (pride and shame)
eros
sexual urges
thanatos
agressive impulses
reality anxiety
concerns real life danger (ego)
moral anxiety
when superego is alerted to possibly violate moral code
neurotic anxiety
concerns ego might be aware of id might start acting up
repression
sexual assault
- forget all details
reaction formation
when a closed gay tries to hide behind homophobia
projection
pretending everyone else cheated too to feel better about myself
regression
reacting in a way you would in earlier stage (throwing a fit)
sublimation
transforming unacceptable impulses into something socially acceptable (kink doctor)
denial
refusing the obvious truth
rationalization
trying to justify unacceptable actions
displacement
takes out anger on someone else
5 stages : psychosexual
oral
anal
phallic
latency
genital
oral
pleasure comes from mouth
anal
pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder
phallic
pleasure zone is genitals
latency
dominant sexual feelings
genital
maturation of sexual interests
evaluating freud
his study was bias
when who were seeking help “unhealthy personalities”
Jung’s analytic perspective
collective unconscious and archetypes
collective unconscious
memories and experiences are interconnected though past experiences to other individuals across generations and locations