 What do you see?

 Used as a personality test  Originally used to help diagnose mental disabilities – didn’t work  Today used as a too to get a feel for someone. Looking for a theme in a patients responses.  Never used by itself.

 The psychologists that followed the main ideas is Sigmund Freud have kept the psychodynamic theory of human personality alive and debated to this day

 More positive the Freud  People try to develop their potential and not just control their urges  Believed in the collective unconscious  Instinct, urges and memories that are passed from one generation to another  Universal ideas called archetypes  Common threads of human experience

 Common threads in all cultures  Studied Dreams, poetry, stories ect.  Jack and the beanstalk the same as David and Goliath  Archetypes influence thoughts and values and lay the foundation of personality

 Overcome feeling of inferiority  Everyone struggles with inferiority and we all work to over come it  Napoleon Bonaparte  Inferiority Complex – avoiding behaviors of inadequacy rather than trying to overcome the source

 As we learn to do things we overcome inadequacies  Parents very influential in the lifestyle  Over pampering leads to self centered children  Neglect leads to angry and frustrated children  Ideal: Child should learn self reliance and courage from father and generosity and feeling for others from there mother  Motivated by Social Urges and that each person has a unique personality

 Erich Fromm  need to belong  Freedom can bring loneliness  Karen Horney  anxiety of childhood  Hostility towards parents because of anxiety  Erik Erikson  8 levels of development all people must go through  importance of lives intersecting with others

Regular and AP  What is the difference between personal unconscious and the collective unconscious?  What part of a personality –id, ego, or super ego- is the most important? Why?  How are the neo-Freudians different from Sigmund Freud?  How might someone overcome and inferiority complex? AP  Create a cartoon the describes one of the defense mechanism discussed yesterday?