Understanding Personality: Psychoanalytic Approach and Psychosexual Stages, Slides of Psychology

Download Understanding Personality: Psychoanalytic Approach and Psychosexual Stages and more Slides Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Personality ⦿A person’s general style of interacting with the world ⦿People differ from one another in ways that are relatively consistent over time and place Personality ⦿Psychoanalytic Approach: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Post-Freudian Theories Psychoanalytic Approach Conscious Unconscious Superego Preconscious Id Ego Information which can easily be made conscious Thoughts, feelings, urges, and other information that is difficult to bring to conscious awareness Information in your immediate awareness Rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality Moralistic, judgmental, perfectionist dimension of personality Irrational, illogical, impulsive dimension of personality Psychoanalytic Approach ⦿Conscious - all things we are aware of at any given moment Conscious Unconscious Superego Preconscious Id Ego Psychoanalytic Approach ⦿Preconscious - everything that can, with a little effort, be brought into consciousness Conscious Unconscious Superego Preconscious Id Ego Defense Mechanisms ⦿Repression - keeping anxiety- producing thoughts out of the conscious mind ⦿Reaction formation - replacing an unacceptable wish with its opposite Defense Mechanisms ⦿Displacement - when a drive directed to one activity by the id is redirected to a more acceptable activity by the ego ⦿Sublimation - displacement to activities that are valued by society Defense Mechanisms ⦿Projection - reducing anxiety by attributing unacceptable impulses to someone else ⦿Rationalization - reasoning away anxiety-producing thoughts ⦿Regression - retreating to a mode of behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development Anal Stage (1 - 3 years) ⦿Anus is associated with pleasure ⦿Toilet training can lead to fixation if not handled correctly ⦿Fixation can lead to anal retentive or expulsive behaviors in adulthood Phallic Stage (3 - 5 years) ⦿Focus of pleasure shifts to the genitals ⦿Oedipus or Electra complex can occur ⦿Fixation can lead to excessive masculinity in males and the need for attention or domination in females Latency Stage (5 - puberty) ⦿Sexuality is repressed ⦿Children participate in hobbies, school and same-sex friendships