Module 38: Personality Through the Psychoanalytic Perspective

Exam 5

personality

an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

who came up with the psychoanalytic perspective?

Freud

what did Freud believe?

that childhood, sexuality, and unconscious motives influenced your personality

what is psychoanalysis?

thoughts and actions due to our unconscious motives and conflicts

what is the first level of awareness?

conscious

what is the second level of awareness?

preconscious

what is the third level of awareness?

unconscious

id

unconscious psychic energy that works off the pleasure principle

superego

internalized ideas and standards for judgement

ego

controls both, very conscious

fixation

pleasure-seeking tendencies stuck at earlier stages

oral stage

• (0-18 mos)

• pleasure centers of mouth

anal stage

• (18-36 mos)

• bowel and bladder elimination (control)

phallic stage

• (3-6 yrs)

• pleasure zone in genitals

latency stage

• (6- puberty)

• phase pf dormant sexual urges

genital stage

• puberty onward

• maturation of sexual interests

repression

don’t think about it = it doesn’t exist

reaction formation

switching impulses to opposites

projection

disguising one’s own impulses by attributing them to others

rationalization

self-justifying in place of real actions

displacement

shifting impulses elsewhere

denial

refusing to believe a painful reality

free association

relaxing and saying whatever comes to mind

freudian slip

verbal error due to unconscious interference

rorschach test

presenting ambigious stimuli to unconver hidden personality dynamics

neo-freudian

someone who believes in something of Freud’s, but with slight changes of their own

Alfred Adler

believed that we strive for superiority

inferiority complex

exaggerated feelings of inadequacy

who came up with the inferiority complex?

Alfred Adler did

compensation

overcoming inferiority by developing one’s abilities

Karen Horney

focused on desire, love, and security

Horney was the first psychoanalytical …

feminist

Horney challenged Freud’s …

masculine bias

Carl Jung

believed in the collective unconscious

collective unconscious

s shared, inheirited memory that traces from our ancestors’ history

Jung was among the first…

psychanalysts