Ch. 10: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations, and Current Research

Neo-Freudian psychology

A general term for the psychoanalytically oriented work of many theorists and researchers who are influenced by Freud’s theory

Ego psychology

The modern school of psychoanalytic thought that believes the most important aspect of mental functioning is the way the ego mediates between, and formulates compromises among, the impulses of the id and the superego

Organ inferiority

In Adler’s version of psychoanalysis, the idea that people are motivated to succeed in adulthood in order to compensate for whatever they felt, in childhood, was their weakest aspect

Masculine protest

In Adler’s version of psychoanalysis, the idea that a particular urge in adulthood is an attempt to compensate for one’s powerlessness felt in childhood

Collective unconscious

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the proposition that all people share certain unconscious ideas because of the history of the human species

Archetypes

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the fundamental images of people that are contained in the collective unconscious, including (among others) “the earth mother,” “the hero,” “the devil,” and “the supreme being.”

Persona

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the social mask one wears in public dealings

Anima

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the idea of the typical woman as held in the mind of a man

Animus

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the idea of the typical man as held in the mind of a woman

Object relations theory

The psychoanalytic study of interpersonal relations, including the unconscious images and feelings associated with the important people (“objects”) in the person’s life