PSY230H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Basicneeds, Well-Order
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Sigmund freud is at the forefont of contemporary personality theories: he studied dimension of human nature for forty years, he developed the technique of free association to go into his unconscious as well as the unconscious of others, he created psychoanalysis, discovered psychological processes such as repression, resistance, transference and infantile sexuality. Pg 110 132: however, social and economic factors often played a primary role in other societies, theorists who followed freud reacted against emphasis on instincts and the importance of sexuality in personality formation, there was a shift from intrapsychic factors towards interpsychic and social forces seen in adler and sullivan"s theories, this shift continued in horney and fromm, they both emphasized forces in society that influenced personality, horney stressed social forces that operate within the family, they both showed how freud"s concept were merely from his social and cultural environment,
