1. Do Now
Which defense mechanism do you use the most?

2. Psychoanalytic Perspective
Unit 10: Personality
Psychoanalytic Perspective

3. Personality Personality
an individual’s typical way of thinking, feeling, and acting
This is the stuff that makes us unique

4. Psychoanalytic Perspective
Freud’s theory about thoughts and actions
Felt we have unconscious feelings/motives and thee things drove our actions even if didn’t realize it
Unconscious
where our unacceptable thoughts and feelings are
Things we are unaware of
Wanted to expose and interpret the unconscious
Did this using free association
EX: say the first thing that comes to tour mind when I say boy
He would interpret your response

5. The Mind – According to Freud
Parts of the mind
Conscious:
what you are aware of
Preconscious:
information not conscious of, but is retrievable
Unconscious:
thoughts, wishes and desires not aware of

6. Personality – According Freud
Personality structure has 3 aspects
Id: operates on pleasure principle
EX: a baby crying out for satisfaction
caring for nothing of the world’s conditions and demands
Ego: operates on the reality principle
EX: Sex is a pleasure and the ego helps us determine that sex with a long term partner is best for long term happiness (reality)
Think about what would happen if we didn’t have this
Superego: voice of conscience, operates on the moral principle
Conscious
develops around 4/5 years of age
this is our moral voice it forces the ego to not only accept what’s real but what is ideal
how we ought to behave
it strives for perfection and creates that positive feeling of pride or negative feeling of guilt

7. Personality Development – According to Freud
Psychosexual stages of development
when the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on specific parts of the body (erogenous zones)
Can become fixated at stages…pleasure-seeking energies become locked into that stage
Oral: pleasure center is mouth…biting, sucking, chewing
Fixation at this stage would be smoking when older because mom moved you off the breast too young
Anal: pleasure focus is bowels/bladder and coping with control
Phallic: pleasure zone is genitals and cope with incestuous feelings
Oedipus complex – boys unconscious sexual desire for mom and jealous/hatred for dad…fear punishment if dad found out
Identification – cope with threatening feelings by identifying with same sex parent
Latency: dormant sexual feelings
Genital: sexual feelings toward others
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8. Defense Mechanisms
Protective methods we use to defend against the anxiety inducing feelings/thoughts.
Act is out
Repression
Regression
Reaction formation
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement
Sublimation
Denial

9. Neo-Freudians Alfred Adler Karen Horney Carl Jung Inferiority complex
Childhood anxiety caused by a sense of helplessness
Balanced out male-dominance in Freud’s theory
 Carl Jung
Unconscious contains two parts…
Personal unconscious
Collective unconscious
Archetypes -- universal, symbolic images that appear in myths, art, stories and dreams

10. Today- Activity Archetypes Activity – Carl Jung
Identify a character from an animated film who fits each of the following archetypes (images or themes all humans share and understand, housed in the collective unconscious) - The hero - The damsel in distress - The trickster - The shadow - The wise old one

11. Assessing Personality
Projective Tests
Thematic Apperception Test
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Problems with projective tests???
Biased
Subject to interpretation
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12. Today- Remainder Test your knowledge Quiz Qs #1-5 HW
HW = Qs # 6-8 (Humanistic)