Personality & Abnormal Psychology: Psychodynamic Flashcards
Psychodynamic/ Psychoanalytic Theories
A branch of personality theories that focuses on the existence of unconscious internal states that motivate the overt actions of individual and thus their personalities.
Sigmund Freud
A psychodynamic theorist who theorized a structural dynamic model for psychodynamic personality.
Major Systems of Freud’s model
Id
Ego
Superego
Id
The source of psychic energy whose primary function is to relieve any psychic tension, real or unreal.
Pleasure Principle
The primary aim of the Id where any psychic tension is discharged.
Wish Fulfillment
The satisfaction of a desire or need through a dream or fantasy.
Ego
The mediator between Id and reality. It operates on the reality principle.
Reality Principle
The primary aim of the ego where the pleasure principle is postponed until the actual object that will satisfy the need has been discovered or produced.
Superego
The moral branch of personality that strives for perfection by balancing the conscience and the ego-ideal.
Conscience
It provides the rules and norms about what constitutes a bad behavior.
Ego-Ideal
It provides the rules for good and appropriate behavior.
Instinct
An innate psychological representation (wish) of a bodily (biological) excitation (need)
Libido
The energy by which life instincts perform rotted in sexual drive.
Defense Mechanism
Ego’s way of unconsciously, releasing excessive pressure due to anxiety with the goal of denying, falsifying, or distorting reality
Main Defense Mechaism
- Repression
- Suppression
- Projection
- Reaction Formulation
- Rationalization
- Regression
- Sublimation
- Displacement
Carl Jung
A psychoanalytical theorist who emphasized interpersonal, sociological and cultural influences.
Main Components of Jung’s theory
Conscious
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
Jung’s Conscious
Equivalent to Freud’s Ego
Jung’s Personal Unconscious
Equivalent to Freud’s Unconscious
Jung’s Collective Unconscious
A powerful system that is shared among humans and depicts experiences by our ancestors (ei. having a mother and father)
Archetypes
A thought or image that has an emotional element.
Different Essence of Archetypes
Persona
Anima + Animus
Shadow
Self