1. Chapter 11
Personality

2. Freud’s 3 Basic Structures of Personality
Completely Unconscious
Irrational
Seek Immediate Satisfaction
Ruled by the Pleasure Principle ID
Sigmund Freud
EGO
Known as Reality Principle
Uses a combination of psychological processes to add balance
Problem solving dimension of our personality
Good & Bad Side (Work Through)
SUPER EGO
Judges your own behavior as Right or Wrong
Should you not live up to these morals…
Feel Guilt, Shame & Anxiety
Behavior to be encouraged in society…
Shoulds, Oughts & Musts

3. Freud’s Iceberg Theory (Mental Awareness)
EGO: Top of Iceberg (above water)
EGO (Conscious)
EGO: Know all the time
no matter what.
Example: Mother’s name
SUPER EGO: Slush underneath the surface
Can not immediately remember but will remember
Example: What you had for dinner last night
SUPER EGO (Sub-Conscious)
ID (Unconscious)
Can Not Access
** Freud says things in our unconscious can be
brought up to our conscious awareness and things
in our conscious may be repressed
to our unconscious

4. Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
Aggressive (outspoken, loud: Roseanne Barr or Eddie Murphy)
Dependent (timid, shy, does not say much: Mr. Rogers)
1. Oral (0 -1)
** Trauma during this time could cause one to split into 2 groups
Retentive (prim & proper, uptight, orderly: Felix from the “Odd Couple”)
Expulsive (messy, disorderly, rule-bender: Oscar from the “Odd Couple”)
2. Anal (1 – 3)
** Maybe mom wouldn’t change the child’s diaper

5. Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
“Love” - Oedipus
“Hate” - Electra Oedipus, abandoned at birth, unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother
3. Phallic (3- 6)
** Boys = love mom & distant from dad. Girls = “daddy’s girl”
**Attraction to opposite-sex parent & mean toward same-sex parent
Unfinished Business
Dormant Time
4. Latency (7 – 11)
** Freud believed this stage is a quite time during which psychosexual development is “on hold”
Sexual Maturity
Healthy Outlook on life
5. Genital (13 – Up)
** The reason teens may have emotion & turmoil is unresolved conflicts of earlier years
Story…

6. Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
According to Freud, we move through development a little at a time, but if fixated on an event development could stop.
Fixation – Growth is temporarily or partially stopped
Example: Oral needs = smoking
Some say those who were not breastfed may not have had their oral needs met and are more likely to smoke.

7. Birth Order: Alfred Adler
Notes 1. McCrimmon will use her own children as an example of Adler’s theory that birth order plays a role in ones personality type. Adler believes parents help shape their children's personality years between children the scheme starts over. 3. Twins: who comes out 1st is considered 1st born. 4. Step Children/Divorce: Learn different roles of each house. Usually all kids mix together. 5. Only child: is considered 1st born.

8. Birth Order: Alfred Adler
“Perfect & Bossy”
1st Born: Brandon (Age 13)
No one to rely on. Does not have to share.
Before: Time was spent with only 1 child. Now: Time is shared with ALL.
Bossy
Example: Mom says, “I am going upstairs, Brandon you are in charge.” Mom leaves room. Brandon says, “Did you hear mom? Dillon, clean-up. Mason, shut-up. Tatum, I am telling.”
Scholarly & Conservative
Example: Parents start out very conservative & get more and more liberal. Brandon used a “Binky”. If the binky fell on the floor it was washed and boiled in hot water. If Tatum’s binky fell on the floor I picked it up and whipped it off on my pants and gave the binky back to her.

9. Birth Order: Alfred Adler
2nd Born: Dillon (Age 12)
Competitive
Example: likes to compete with siblings
“I’m better then you”
Wants to be different
“Different”

10. Birth Order: Alfred Adler
3rd Born: Mason (Age 11)
Opposite
Example: Magnet - No matter how hard you try to put them together they just do not fit
Conflict
Example: One child is very “boring”(stays home, does not interact with others) other child is outgoing
Younger kids learn from older ones
Example: Dad says to younger child, “Be home at 6:00 to do homework.” Older kids chime in, “Oh, dad does not get pissed until 8:00.”
Forget-Me-Not
“Rebellious”

11. Birth Order: Alfred Adler
4th Born: Tatum (Age 9)
Gets Everything
Example: She screams and almost always
gets whatever she wants
Cookie Rule for children 1, 2 & 3. #4 can eat the whole box.
Example: All kids get one cookie for snack. Baby cries and she gets the whole box. “Just give it to her!”
Note:
According to Alfred Adler, feelings of inferiority are universal during infancy and childhood.
The Baby
“Spoiled”