PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Carl Jung, Hermann Rorschach, Personality Test
15 Sep 2020
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Freud believed that repression, the basic mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing impulses, enables other defense mechanisms, six of which are listed above. Placed more emphasis on conscious mind and on social motives than sexual or aggression related ones. Contend childhood social experiences influence adult personality and attachment patterns. Many believe species" shared evolutionary history shaped some universal predispositions (archetypes) Alfred alder: the individual feels at home in life and feels his existence to be worthwhile just so far as he is useful to others and is overcoming feelings of inferiority . Karen horney: the view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women"s self- respect . Theorized childhood anxiety triggers desire for love and security. Countered assumption that women have weak superegos and suffer penis envy. Believed childhood social, not sexual tensions crucial for personality formation.
