PSY230H5 Lecture : Personality - Lec 9
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This material will be covered in chapter 4. Focus shifts from intrapsychic (within same person /within one person"s mind) to. Interpsychic (across persons between people relationship) [but adler calls his theory. Individual psychology, and this may be confusing: early social life experiences shape our later patterns of behavior (key premise of many of these theories) Adler and freud were tight at one point. So when we look at adler"s theory, we see first and foremost, a shift from psychodynamic theory, in that the ego is not simply seen as the engine of satisfying the needs of the unconscious. The ego isn"t just a servant running around trying to satisfy the wants of the various parts of psyche, but rather our thoughts are not coming from somewhere hidden but they are entirely based on conscious knowledge/motives/plans. So we are aware of our motivations, we know why we do things. And we know what we intend to achieve.
