PSYC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Narcissism, Individualism, Unconditional Positive Regard
18 Apr 2016
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Personality an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Psychodynamic theories view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences. Psychoanalysis freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Without realizing their source, we may speak of ego, repression, projection, sibling rivalry, freudian slips, and fixation. Unconscious according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Free association in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Basic to freud"s theory was his belief that the mind is mostly hidden. Our conscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg that floats above the surface.
