The Psychology of Personality and Individual Differences

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The Psychology of Personality and Individual
Differences
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• Lecturer Cathal OSiochru
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• Neo-Freudians Personal Psychology

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My Way or the Highway Freud Alienates his
Followers
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• Carl Jung
• Reads Interpretation..
• Joins Freud in 1906
• Head of IPA in 1911
• Alienated in 1912

• Alfred Alder
• Reads Interpretation..
• Joins Freud in 1902
• Head of VPS in 1910
• Alienated in 1911

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My Way or the Highway Freud Alienates his
Followers
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Game Over

• Carl Jung
• Reads Interpretation..
• Joins Freud in 1906
• Head of IPA in 1911
• Alienated in 1912

• Alfred Alder
• Reads Interpretation..
• Joins Freud in 1902
• Head of VPS in 1910
• Alienated in 1911

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Carl Jung 1875 - 1961
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• The Self
• Rejects the idea of independent components and
  instead proposes an interdependent system, the
  Self.
• Ultimate targets of development of the Self are

• Individuation recognise each component of the
  psyche and re-unify them
• Compensation the development of those
  components neglected by consciousness
• Self-realisation - harmonise between all
  opposites in the psyche

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Psycho-physics
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• Libido Driving force of the self, source of
  its energy. Composed of general life energy (not
  just sexual)
• Principles of
• equivalence
• entropy
• opposites

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Jungs Topology
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• Conscious
• Ego - Still the arbiter between conscious and
  unconscious but no longer the centre of
  personality
• Personal unconscious
• Unacceptable components of the Psyche
• Gender opposite components
• Complexes
• Collective unconscious
• archetypes - symbols
• persona - public representation
• anima - female component
• animus - male component
• shadow dark side

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You, Me and the Collective Unc.
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• Personal Unc Collective Unc
• I have a dark side

I am Male
I am Female
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Personality Development
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• Stages of Development
• 1 Childhood (birth to adolescence)
• libido directed to learning to walk etc
• after 5 directed to sexual development
• 2 Young Adulthood (adolescence to 40)
• libido directed to vocation, marriage, kids etc
• outgoing, energetic
• 3 Middle Age (40 to later years)
• switches to more spiritual, philosophical 

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Attitudes Functions of Thought
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• Attitudes
• introversion/extroversion
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• Functions of thought
• Rational Functions
• thinking - what an object is, names it
• feeling - determines worth, liking and disliking
• Irrational Functions
• sensing - detecting the presence
• intuiting - going beyond knowledge

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Pros Cons
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• Pros
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• recognised the importance of a persons aim in
  life on their development
• more positive than Freud
• didnt emphasise sexuality as much

• Cons
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•  non-scientific
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• contrdaictory
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• elitist
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• overly mystical

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Further Study
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• Jung, S. A. (1985) Jung the Post-Jungians.
  London R. K.P.
• Online MBTI
• http//www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp