Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality: Contemporary Issues Flashcards
neo-analytic movement
- many of Freud’s ideas are not relevant today
- some incorporated into the contemporary version of psychoanalysis
- psychoanalysis is considered a thoery containing ideas inspired by Freud, BUT modified and advanced by others
- less about id, ego and superego, or repressed sexuality
- focus is on children relationships and adult conflicts with others
contemporary psychoanalysis, based on 5 postulates
1 unconscious plays a large role in life, BUT is not ubiquitous as Freud believed
2. B reflects compromises in conflict between mental processes
3. childhood plays an important role in personality dev; particularly in shaping adult relationship styles
4 mental representations of self and others guide interactions with others
5. personality dev involves regulating sexual and aggressive feelings, and moving from an immature socially dependent way of relating to others to a mature independent relationship styles
Carl Jung
- go to slides to find important dates
tensions between Jung and Freud
The Psychology of the Unconscious
- critical of Freud, placed a strain on their relationship
- by 1914, Jung resigned and withdrew from the psychoanalytic association
- 1913-1916 went through emotional crisis, led to a spark of creativity
- allowed him to establish Analytic Psychology
analytic psychology
- emphasizes complex interplay between oppositional forces within psyche and the ways in which these internal conflicts affect personality development
- libido generalized life energy of which sex was only part
- no place for an Oedipus complex
- shaped by the past and by our goals, hopes and aspirations
- personality not fully determined by age 6
- sex plays a minimal role in motivation
psyche
construct to represent all of the interacting systems within human personality that are needed to account for the mental life and B of the person
structural components of the psyche
- personal unconscious
- material that once was conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed
- complexes - collective unconscious
- deepest level of psyche which contains inherited experiences of human and pre human species
- archetypes
structural components of the psyche: ego
force in the personality responsible for feelings of identity and continuity
structural components of the psyche: persona
- causes people to present only part of their personality to the public
- the mask we present and let others see
structural components of the psyche: self
leads people to search for ways of maximizing dev of their multifaceted potentials
structural components of the psyche: shadow
provides us with the tendency to be immoral and aggressive
structural components of the psyche: anima
provides the female component of the make personality
structural components of the psyche: animus
provides the masculine component of the female personality
operation of the psyche: principles of opposites
the energy that propels personality and B is derived from interplay between opposite forces within the psyche
operation of the psyche: principle of equivalence
energy expended in one part of the psyche will be compensated for by and equal amount of energy in another part of the psyche
operation of the psyche: principle of entropy
energy is automatically redistributed in the psyche in order to achieve equilibrium
psychological types theory: introversion vs extraversion
opposing attitudes refelcting the direction of the libido
extravert:
- libido directed outside the self
- strongly influenced by forces in the environment
- is sociable and self confident
introvert:
- libido directed inward
- resistant to external influences
- introspective, less confident in relations with others and the external world, less sociable
functions: rational vs irrational
rational:
- modes of making udgments or evaluations of events in the world (thinking and feeling)
irrational functions
- modes of apprehending the world without evaluating it (sensing and intuition)
irrational functions: sensing
initial, concrete experiencing of phenomena without teh use of reason
rational functions: thinking
helps us understand events through the use of reason and logic
rational functions: feeling
evaluation of events by judging whether they are good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable
irrational functions: intuiting
relying on hunches when dealing with strange situations that have no established facts
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Where do we get out energy?
- extraversion - introversion
How do we take in info?
- sensing - intuition
How do we make decisions?
- thinking - feeling
How do we organize our world?
- judging - perceiving
theory of psychological types
- 8 types based on a combination of attitudes and functions
1. extraverted thinking type
2. introverted thinking type
3. extraverted feeling type
4. introverted feeling type
5. extraverted sensing type
6. introverted sensing type
7. extraverted intuitive type
8. introverted intuitive type
extraverted thinking type
- characterized positively by an ability to organize masses of facts into a coherent theory
- negatively by a selfish and exploitative attitude towards others
introverted thinking type
- characterized positively by imagination and an ability to think originally and boldly
- negatively by social ineptness
extraverted feeling type
- characterized positively by an acceptance of the standards of society
- negatively by a change in emotions from situation to situation
introverted feeling type
- characterized positively by intense feelings of sympthay for others who have experienced misfortune
- negatively by shyness and inaccessibility