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Chapter 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality

Sigmund Freud: A Brief Biography

Why Is Psychoanalysis Important?

Fundamental Assumptions of Psychoanalytic Theory

  • Basic Instincts: Sex and Aggression
  • Unconscious Motivation: Sometimes We Don’t Know Why We Do What We Do
  • One of Freud’s Famous Students: Carl Gustav Jung
  • Psychic Determinism: Nothing Happens by Chance
  • Structure of Personality

  • Id: Reservoir of Psychic Energy
  • Ego: Executive of Personality
  • Superego: Upholder of Societal Values and Ideals
  • Interaction of the Id, Ego, and Superego
  • Dynamics of Personality

  • Types of Anxiety
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Psychosexual Stages of Personality Development

    Personality and Psychoanalysis

  • Techniques for Revealing the Unconscious
  • The Process of Psychoanalysis
  • Evaluation of Freud’s Contributions

    SUMMARY AND EVALUATION

    KEY TERMS








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