PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, Personal Unconscious
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Definition of personality: an individual"s unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour s that persists over time and across situations; Studying personality: identify most important characteristics of personality, seek to understand why there are differences in personality; Sigmund freud: stressed the unconscious, formed basis of psychoanalysis, human behaviour is based on unconscious instincts, or drives; Instincts: sexual instincts refer to erotic sexuality, and to craving for pleasure of all kinds, libido refers to energy generated by sexual instinct; it depends on satisfaction of sexual instinct during course of life; Freud versus jung: freud emphasized primacy of sexual instincts, while jung stressed peoples" rational and spiritual qualities, freud considered development to shaped in childhood, jung though psychic development comes to fruition only during middle age; Karen horney: disagreed with freud"s analysis of women and his emphasis on sexual instincts, sexuality does influence development of personality, non-sexual factors play even larger role;
