1. Psychoanalytic theory

2. Sigmund freud
Defense Mechanisms: devices used to protect people from pressures
Id: selfish, pleasure-driven and demands immediate gratification
Superego: cautions people to do the right thing
Ego: mediates/compromises between the id and superego

3. Sigmund freud
Psychosexual Stages: 5 crises that take place throughout ones’s lifespan:
Oral – Oral Fixation
Anal – Anal Retentive vs. Anal Expulsive
Phallic – Oedipus Complex vs. Electra Complex
Latency
Genital

4. Carl Jung
Archetypes: universal ideas stored in unconscious (wicked, hero, mother)
Collective Unconscious: storehouse of all myths, memories and urges
Extraversion: friendly, outgoing

5. Carl Jung Introversion: shy, would rather be by themselves
Individuation: personality is stabilized by moderating its extremes

6. Karen Horney
Basic Anxiety: something that disturbs a person’s security

7. Alfred Adler Birth Order: position of a person among siblings
Fictional Finalisms: expectations about the future
Inferiority: feelings of frailty and incompetence
Style of Life: motives, actions, values and interests that help people overcome inferiority

8. Erik Erikson
Psychosocial Stages: 8 crises that must be resolved throughout ones’ lifetime
Identity Crisis: adolescents decide who they are as individuals