Freud Personality Theories Significance of Freud Popularized the

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Freud & Personality Theories

Freud & Personality Theories

Significance of Freud: • Popularized the idea of the • • unconscious Started psychoanalysis/Founded

Significance of Freud: • Popularized the idea of the • • unconscious Started psychoanalysis/Founded Psychodynamic theory Ended the notion that evil spirits caused mental illness

Methods for tapping the unconscious: • • • Hypnosis "Talking therapy" Free association

Methods for tapping the unconscious: • • • Hypnosis "Talking therapy" Free association

Personality structure: • Id • Ego • Superego

Personality structure: • Id • Ego • Superego

Part of the ego's job is to protect the conscious mind from threatening thoughts

Part of the ego's job is to protect the conscious mind from threatening thoughts buried in the unconscious- It uses defense mechanisms

Psychosexual Stages: Stage/Age Gratification Possible Problems Oral (0 -1) Sucking, eating, biting Smoking, nail

Psychosexual Stages: Stage/Age Gratification Possible Problems Oral (0 -1) Sucking, eating, biting Smoking, nail biting, gluttony, (too much- overly optimistic) (too little- pessimistic/hostile) Anal (1 -3) Bladder & Bowel movement Messiness (anal expulsive) Cleanliness (anal retentive) Phallic (3 -5) Stimulation of genitalia Jealousy, sexual conquests, problems with parents Latency (6 puberty) Sexual feelings are repressed Excessive modesty, homosexuality Genital (puberty/adult) Sexual relationships None

Oedipus complex • • Occurs during the phallic stage Electra complex is the female

Oedipus complex • • Occurs during the phallic stage Electra complex is the female version

Which of these theorists is Freud? PBS: Which one is Freud?

Which of these theorists is Freud? PBS: Which one is Freud?

Psychodynamic Theorists: Carl Jung: • Collective unconscious to go along with the personal unconscious

Psychodynamic Theorists: Carl Jung: • Collective unconscious to go along with the personal unconscious • Less emphasis on sex, id not a "cauldron of seething excitations" but source of strength & vitality for id

Karen Horney Disagreed with Freud's emphasis on sexual instincts. Felt environmental & social factors

Karen Horney Disagreed with Freud's emphasis on sexual instincts. Felt environmental & social factors during childhood are at the root of personality.

Erikson Felt the parent-child relationship was key to personality development

Erikson Felt the parent-child relationship was key to personality development

Other theories: • Behaviorist • Humanistic (Carl Rogers, Maslow) • Trait theories • Biological

Other theories: • Behaviorist • Humanistic (Carl Rogers, Maslow) • Trait theories • Biological