PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Oedipus Complex
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Style of life: according to adler; each person"s distinctive way of achieving superiority. Maintained that neurotic difficulties stem from early childhood. Inferiority complex: feelings of low self-esteem that can lead to overcompensation for such feelings. Collective unconscious: according to jung, our shared storehouse of memories that ancestors have passed down to us across generations. Took aim at those aspects of his theory that she considered gender biased. The oedipus complex is only a symptom rather than a cause of psychological problems. Pointed out that anatomy isn"t always destiny when it comes to the psychological differences between the sexes. Argued that social influences must be reckoned within the development of personality. Radical behaviourists are determinists = believe that all of our actions are products of pre-existing causal influences. Free will is an illusion for them, we are convinced we are free to select our behaviours only bc we are oblivious to the situational factors that trigger them.
