PBSI 360 Personality theories and psychoanalysis

Psychodynamic approaches

Models that focus on the personality as a complex interplay of conscious and unconscious motives, thoughts, and feelings

Psychodynamic approaches impact

• Includes many big theorist

• Genrative

  • popular culture

Psychodynamic approaches criticism

Dislike of emphasis on sx and sxual energy

• Unscientific theory

• Complaints about Freud’s ethics, manners, and personal life

Psychic determinism

Everything that happens in someones mind, has a specefic cause

Topocraphical model

• Conscious

• Preconscious

  • Unconscious

Conscious

What we aware of

• Reality principle

Preconscious

What we barely aware of

Unconscious

Areas of the mind of wich a person is not aware of

• Pleasure principle

Id

The unconscious mind, motivated by pleasure and wish fulfillment

• Irrational and emotional

• Freudian slip

Ego

Navigates between ego and superego

• Rational

Superego

Strict and demanding

• Moral

Psychosexual stages

Story of the investment and redirection fo life energy aross childhood

• Oral

• ANal

• Phallic

• Latency

  • Genital

Oral

First Place:place where psychic energy is focused

• Timing: 0-18 months

• Physical focus: Mouth lips and tongue

  • Id: Wants their needs met instantly

Anal

Child ecpected to do some things independentyl

• Physical Focus: Anus and organs elimination

• Timing: 18 motnhs - 3 years

• Psychological theme: Self control and obedience

• Development of Ego: To find compromise of what is needed and what is wanted

  • Could go wrong: Over and under controlled

Phallic

Child realizes boys and girls are different

• 3.5- 7 years

• Physical focus: Sexual organs

• Basic task: Accepting physical differences and their implications

• Psycholoigcal theme: gender role

  • Development of superego: Moral

Latency

Learning the task of childhood

• 7 years to puberty

• A break from development

  • Libidio remins dormant until puberty

Genital

Adult hood is an achievemnt

• Puberty and beyond

• Physical focus: Organs of reproduction

• Psychological theme: Maturity

Denial

rejects perception of source of anxiety

Reaction formation

Protects against a forbidden thoughts/impulse by instigating the opposite

Projection

Attribute an unwanted impulse/attribute in oneself to another person

Repression

Prevent of recall

Displacement

Reject forbidden impuse to safer target

Sublimation

Redirect base impulse in a constructive direction

Humor

Relieve tension between conscious and unconscious

Defensive pessimism

Thinking negative thoughts to prepare for the worst outcome

● Psychoanalytic theory/Freudian Therapy 

Resolve problems by bringing unconscious conflicts to the surface so the ego can deal with them

Personal Unconscious (Carl Jung)

Freud Id + Superego = individual unconscious

Collective unconscious (carl jung)

Shared by all humans

Attitudes (carl jung)

Extraversion vs introversion

Ego functionx (carl jung)

Thinking vs. Feeling: Rational functions  

■ Intuition vs. Sensation: Irrational functions  

■ Judging vs. Perceiving: added later  

Thinking vs feeling

Rational functions

Intuition vs sensation

Rational functions

Judging vs perceiving

Added laters