PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson

• School: American River College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 300
• Professor: Fratello

Document Summary

Neo-freudians followers who broke with freud in significant ways, but maintained basic psychodynamic orientation. Broke with freud to form own analytical psychology. Coincidence has psychological meaning behind it in some pseudo spiritual. Emphasis on ego drives rather than id drives. People act like they are better when they have an unconscious sense of inferiority. Have need to feel safe and have their needs met. People want to know who they are and what they"re going to be in life. Who they are, coherent sense of self. Trained exclusively in psychoanalysis (different than others) Freud"s view of human nature was essentially negative selfish and pessimistic. If unrestrained by consequences and society, people would pursue gratification! Humanistic pscyhologists" view of human nature is essentially positive selfless and optimistic. Human beings have an innate tendency to move toward growth and maturity, to fulfill their potential. Go from basic and biological on bottom to complex and social on top.