PS271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erik Erikson, Ego Psychology, Collective Unconscious
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Does not consist of hard data from rigorous laboratory experiments. Is based on examinaion of mythology, cultural symbols, dreams, and the statements of schizophrenics. It is argued that collecive unconscious is same for everyone. Believed that ego is a relaively powerful, independent part of personality. Ego psychology- erikson"s approach to personality: principal funcion of the ego is to establish and maintain a sense of idenity, idenity crisis- confusion and despair we feel when we lack a strong sense of who we are. Erikson"s stages of personality development coninue from infancy to old age. Crises- turning points encountered by people in personality development: provides two direcions in which to proceed, how a person resolves a crisis determines the direcion of his/her personality development, figure 5. 1 (pg. 107) Child whose needs are met develops a sense of basic trust. Infants who never receive the loving care they need develops a sense of basic mistrust.
