DST 500 Lecture Notes - Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

Individual: involves different perspectives and can potentially change how you understand explanations: tied with psychological. Theorists of psychologists take their theories from an individual approach: sigmund freud. Inventor of psychoanalysis: theory of behaviour and development of techniques that impact unconscious motives: as he heavily depended on hypnosis, with the increasing trend of oral, anal, etc. sex, saw that individuals would develop as people. Principal myth-maestro: many people disagreed with his studies, as he was a sexist which many of his studies were based on, alfred adler. Best known for his notion of the inferiority complex: low self-esteem and sense of insecurity, inferiority of not measuring up to standards. Moved on to focus on the relation between the individual and the environment: erik erikson. Trained in psychoanalysis: built on freud"s theories, more concerned with environmental factors. Guilt: age 4 5: industry vs. inferiority: age 6 11, identity vs. role confusion: teens, intimacy and solidarity vs.