PSYC-1105EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Collective Unconscious, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

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Neo-freudian and psychodynamic theorists: contemporary psychoanalysts no longer write about ids or ego, but do embrace 4 core postulates: 3. stable personality patterns start to form in early childhood and early experiences play a role. 4. mental representations of self and others guide our interactions and influence how we develop psychological symptoms. Collective unconscious: the universal memories, symbols, and experiences of humankind, represented in the archetypes or universal symbolic images that appear in myths, art, stories, and dreams. 2 important archetypes are maleness and femaleness which he believed existed in both sexes: charter member of freud"s inner circle- the vienna psychoanalytic society. Forced to resign in 1911 after he created his own personality theory. Thought freud went overboard in centering on sexual conflicts. Universal drive to adapt, improve oneself, and master life"s challenges. Overcome imagined or real inferiorities by developing one"s abilities: personality disturbances arise in terms of overcompensation and inferiority complexes, positive compensation. Able to address the source of his/her inferiority.

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