Personality pt 3 psychodynamic Flashcards
What were Freud’s levels of consciousness?
Conscious thought, preconscious mind, unconscious mind
What was Freud’s structure of personality?
Ego - Planning, thinking and organizing
* Mediator between child and world
* Reality principle and secondary processes
à social factors
Superego - Conscience (internalized parental attitudes etc).
* Acts in opposition to the Id.
* Also regulation of the ego
Id - raw, uninhibited instinctual energy
* Source of impulses and mental energy
* Also drives for basic survival needs, and sex,
aggression and self-destruction
What are the stages in Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
oral > anal > phallic > latency > genital
What are some of Freud’s defence mechanisms when fixed on the latency stage?
repression, undoing, regression, denial, displacement, phobic avoidance, isolation, rationalisation etc.
What were some of, neo-freudian, Adler’s contributions?
inferiority feelings from birth, importance of birth order - unique treatment of each child, when inferiority is not compensated for, neuroticism develops, style of life developed from family experience
What were Jung’s most common personality types?
extraverted & introverted - sensing, thinking, feeling, intuitive
What was Horney’s theory about human nature?
Positive view of human nature
Warm, loving, consistent parenting where child is respected and supported
– Healthy personality development
Potential to become their ‘real self’ (Ultimate expression of abilities and talents)
If not experienced – neurotic personality develops
What are Horney’s 3 personality types?
compliant
aggressive
detached
What are Horney’s additional defence mechanisms of a neurotic personality?
- Blind spots
- Compartmentalisation
- Rationalisation
- Excessive self-control
- Arbitrary rightness
- Elusiveness
- Cynicism
