PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Extraversion And Introversion, Falsifiability, Maladjusted

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 393
• Professor: Unkown

Document Summary

Neoanalytic approach: trash and refute freud, more fruitful approach. Fundamental changes from freudian theory: importance of sexuality. Libido is not sexual desire but a source of creativity and life. Less focus on instinctual drives and mental life. Concerned with external relations and conflicts: conscious. Ego psychologists: more emphasis on development of ego than the id. Based on case studies with no further support or no way to test: weaknesses, falsifiability, incomplete, strengths, lessened hostility surrounding freud, made theory more logical/coherent, led to modern empirical support. Alfred adler (1870-1937: background and break with freud, disagreement of focus on sex. Believed in social interest as motivator: social interest, social interest: Innate desire to relate productively and positively with others: innate desire to relate productively and positively with others. What we lack we strive for. Compensate for our weaknesses: striving for superiority, single motivation factor, feelings of inferiority. Inferiority complex: social interest, helplessness, not striving.