PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Gordon Allport, Trait Theory, Inferiority Complex
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Psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, behavioural, and cognitive approaches to personality. Jung distinguished his analytic theory from freud"s psychodynamic theory. Jung believed that motivation is provided by the libido, but unlike freud, jung thought that the drives in libido are for more than sex and aggression. Libido is not sexual energy, but a general life-enhancing energy that can be directed towards meeting different needs at different times in our lives. Ego is central to our conscious mind and that our unconscious psyche is divided into a personal unconscious and a collective unconscious. Collective unconscious: ancient part of the human mind that forms the biological basis of human nature. Libido is contained in the collective unconscious in the form of basic human instincts called archetypes shared by all human beings. Archetypes lead us to interpret and organize our experiences in certain ways. Archetypes are only accessed indirectly but are projected onto almost everything we do.
