PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Extraversion And Introversion, Developmental Lines, Ego Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Ego psychology: significant differences between analyzing children and adults, these differences caused anna to emphasize the ego more in child analysis than when treating adults, children do not recall early traumatic experiences as adults do. Children display developmental experiences as they occur: a(cid:374)(cid:374)a used the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)developmental lines(cid:863) to des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e the (cid:272)hild"s gradual transition from dependence on external controls to mastery of internal and external reality. A person gives up his or her own ambitions and lives vicariously by ide(cid:374)tifyi(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith a(cid:374)other perso(cid:374)"s satisfa(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d frustrations. A person adopts the values and mannerisms of a feared person as his or her own. For anna this is the mechanism that explains the development (cid:862) to(cid:272)khol(cid:373) sy(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e(cid:863) Libido: main source of disagreement between jung and freud was the nature of the libido, according to freud, libido was sexual energy, the main driving force of personality.