PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Object Relations Theory, Unconscious Mind, Collective Unconscious
16 Jun 2013
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Chapter 12: psychoanalysis after freud: neo-freudians, object relations, and. View sex as less important than freud did: libido is general motivation toward life and creativity. Less emphasis on unconscious mental processes and more emphasis on conscious thought. Ego psychology: focuses on perception, memory, learning and rational, conscious thinking. Less emphasis on instinctual drives and mental life as the source of psychological difficulties, and focuses on interpersonal relationships. Social interest: desire to relate positively and productively with other people. Organ inferiority: individuals are motivated to attain equality or superiority over other people; they try to accomplish this to compensate for whatever they felt in childhood was their weakest aspect. Masculine protest: particular kind of compensation for the past seen in the desire of an adult to act and become powerful. The collective unconscious, persona, and personality jung: Collective unconscious: proposition that all people share certain unconscious ideas because of the history of the human species.
