pshycology of personality notes
Psychology of Personality
What Made Freud’s Theory Interesting? Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory explains personality in terms of:
Early childhood experiences, such as successes and failures or our relationship with our parents and siblings.
Our unconscious “issues” which must be confronted in order to have a healthy and happy personality and conflicts.
Our struggles with sexual and aggressive impulses.
Freud’s View of Our Psyche
1. Freud believed that how we think, feel, and behave largely results from parts of our psyche of which we are unaware.
2. He believed that our psyche consists of three forces.
3. The ID is the part which is concerned with only immediate gratification, such as eating, sleeping, and having fun! It is very selfish and childlike.
The Ego is the part which is focused on being responsible, completing our daily tasks, and pursuing our goals.
The Superego is the part which maintains our collection of morals and is formed through parental rules, societal expectations, and religious teachings.
3 Levels of Awareness
Conscious: what a person is aware of during one particular point in time, such as being consciously aware of what I am saying during this lecture
Preconscious: consists of information which is just beneath the surface of awareness and can be easily retrieved, such as a conversation you had with a friend yesterday
Unconscious: beyond awareness; contains thoughts, memories, and desires which are deep below the surface of conscious awareness but have great influence on our behaviors and thoughts; also consists of our primitive drives and urges
Ex. forgotten traumas of one’s childhood or hidden hostility.
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
During the oral stage, an infant is primarily motivated to receive pleasure through the mouth.
During the 2nd year of life, a child goes through an anal phase. If parents are too punitive during the anal phase, the child may adopt an anal triad, consisting of orderliness, stinginess, and
What Made Freud’s Theory Interesting? Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory explains personality in terms of:
Early childhood experiences, such as successes and failures or our relationship with our parents and siblings.
Our unconscious “issues” which must be confronted in order to have a healthy and happy personality and conflicts.
Our struggles with sexual and aggressive impulses.
Freud’s View of Our Psyche
1. Freud believed that how we think, feel, and behave largely results from parts of our psyche of which we are unaware.
2. He believed that our psyche consists of three forces.
3. The ID is the part which is concerned with only immediate gratification, such as eating, sleeping, and having fun! It is very selfish and childlike.
The Ego is the part which is focused on being responsible, completing our daily tasks, and pursuing our goals.
The Superego is the part which maintains our collection of morals and is formed through parental rules, societal expectations, and religious teachings.
3 Levels of Awareness
Conscious: what a person is aware of during one particular point in time, such as being consciously aware of what I am saying during this lecture
Preconscious: consists of information which is just beneath the surface of awareness and can be easily retrieved, such as a conversation you had with a friend yesterday
Unconscious: beyond awareness; contains thoughts, memories, and desires which are deep below the surface of conscious awareness but have great influence on our behaviors and thoughts; also consists of our primitive drives and urges
Ex. forgotten traumas of one’s childhood or hidden hostility.
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
During the oral stage, an infant is primarily motivated to receive pleasure through the mouth.
During the 2nd year of life, a child goes through an anal phase. If parents are too punitive during the anal phase, the child may adopt an anal triad, consisting of orderliness, stinginess, and