PPE 3003 Lecture 4: Chapter 4 Notes
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Chapter 4: neo-analytic and ego aspects of personality: identity. Jung complexes: a complex is a group of emotionally charged thoughts that are related to a particular theme, jung created a word association test to study complexes. Two major attitudes of the mind: extroversion, direct psychic energy toward things in the external world. The four functions of the mind: sensing, thinking, feeling. Individual psychology: idea that our infirmities motivate our actions/choices in life, social conditions on personality, occupation tasks, societal tasks, love tasks. Different aspects of the self (karen horney: real self, the inner core of personality, despised self, feelings of inferiority and shortcomings. Anna freud: emphasized social influences on the ego, gave the ego more power, studied children and teens. Heinz hartmann: the father of ego psychology , gave the ego more autonomy. Id and ego in compensatory relationship regulating each other.