Module 2 Flashcards
Difference between striving for superiority and striving for success
Striving for superiority is the drive that motivates a person to do everything perfect and complete so he may get superiority over others
Striving for success is the drive that motivates people to highly develop social interest
What are safeguarding tendencies
Symptoms that are created as a means of protecting their self esteem are called safeguarding tendencies
Safeguarding tendencies are
Excuses which allow people to preserve the inflated sense of personal worth
Aggression which may take the form of depreciating other’s accomplishments and accusing others to be responsible for one’s failures
Withdrawal that is moving backwards psychologically
Why do people safeguard themselves
They safeguard themselves against physical harm, social threat , loss of self-esteem
What are safeguarding tendencies
Safeguarding tendencies are excuses (which allow people to preserve their inflated sense of personal worth), aggression (which may take the form of depreciating others accomplishments, accusing others to be responsible for one’s failures), withdrawal (moving backwards)
What is the persona
Image of ourselves that we present to the world
What is the shadow
It comprises of hidden anxiety and repressed thoughts
Personal unconscious
It contains an individual’s personal memories and ideas
Collective unconscious
Set of memories and ideas that is shared amongst all of humanity
What are archetypes?
Shared concepts which permeate the collective unconscious and emerge as themes and characters in our dreams and surface in our culture
What creates particular personality traits
Disunity among thoughts in personal subconscious and conscious creates internal conflicts which could lead to particular personality traits
What is individuation
Process which helps in allowing repressed ideas to emerge into the conscious and accommodate them and create harmony
What is the anima and animus
Anima in males and animus in females represents the opposite gender to a person’s self
What creates the anima or animus
When developing a gender identity, the repress the aspects of their personality which might be considered to be this opposite of their gender
What does the wise old man represent
It represents the power of peaceful contemplation in the absence of physical prowess
