Sigmund Freud

• Psychodynamic Theory


  Sigmund Freud's theory of personality
• Psychodynamic Theory


  • What made this theory interesting
• Levels of Mental Life

  • Conscious
  • Preconscious
  • Unconscious
• Freud: Personality Structures

  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
• Provinces of the Mind

  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
• Dynamics of Personality


  Freud's theory of how personality works
• Freud: Psychosexual Stages of Development

  • Oral
  • Anal
  • Phallic
  • Latency
  • Genital
• Personologist personality researchers and theorist
• Anxiety felt effective, unpleasant state accompanied by physical sensation
• Neurotic unknown danger from the id, can be toxic
• Moral conflicts between ego and superego
• Defense Mechanism avoid dealing directly with instictual demands and to defend ego
• Fixation permanent, regressing to the age where u're more comfortable wit
• Regression temporary, regressing to the age the most comfortable
• Projecting blaming others to you're own wrong doing
• Interjection incorporating positive qualities of others to oneself
• Acting out extreme behaviors to express thought or feeling; self harm
• Reaction formation acting opposite of what one really feels
• Rationalization making excuses for behavior that is unacceptable
• Displacement redirecting feelings from original source onto another person/object
• Sublimation turning negative feelings into something productive
• Projection attributing own thoughts, emotions, desires to someone else
• Denial refusing to acknowledge reality
• Repression pushing away unpleasant memories or experiences
• Projection attributing your own thoughts, emotions, or desires to someone else
• Dissociation breaking part of memories; DID
• Undoing looks away do away individuals avoid conscious awareness of disturbing impulses by thinking or acting in a way intended to revert (“make un-happen”) those impulses, even if only at a symbolic level.
• Isolation block any feelings that follows unwanted feelings
• Compartmentalization lesser form of dissociation; separating things
• Rationalization changing reality to fit our truth and desire; justifying
• Intellectualization complex explanation to control disturbing feeling
• Compensation is perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength
• Altruism getting pleasures from giving others themselves would like to recieve
• Assertiveness person's need or thoughts in a manner that is respectful
• Oral Receptive infants incorporate into one's body the instinctual object-choice
• Oral Sadistic infants respond through biting; thumb sucking
• Oral Fixation evidence by a preoccupational with oral activity
• Early anal receive satisfaction by destroying or losing an object
• Late Anal receiving satisfaction by withholding and retention
• Anal Retentive- too stingy to hold on to all kinds of objext