Sociology SOCI S - 128 Lecture 1: Human-Personality-Theories
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Alfred adler disagreed with freud"s conflict-based view of humanity. Emphasised importance of social world in personality development. + birth order and inferiority complexes. Karen horney rejects freud"s sexual theory and gender-based motivations. Personality fully developed in creation of real self. Carl jung disagreed with freud"s psychosexual theories. Personality keeps on developing throughout life influenced by future goals to achieve potential. Psyche model of personality = opposites balance to motivate behaviour. Personal and collective unconscious, personality depends on how one sees the world and reacts to it. What we need / makes us feel fulfilled e. g. food, safety, sleep. Freud supplied to us the sick half of psychology, and we must now fill it with the healthy half" - maslow. Self actualisation creativity, no prejudice, spontaneity, morality etc. Safety family, health, security of self, property etc. Physiological breathing, food, sleep etc. (basic needs)
