Personality Psychology

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Personality Psychology
  Lecturer Cathal OSiochru         Psychodyna
mic Theories of Personality
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My Lectures

• Lecture 1 (Today)
• Psychodynamic I (Freud / Lacan Darwin)
• Lecture 2 (20th Oct)
• Psychodynamic II (Jung / Adler)
• Lecture 3 (24th Nov)
• Methods of Psychological Testing
• Lecture 4 (01st Dec)
• Applying Personality to Education

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Sigmund Freud 1856 - 1939

• Instinct
• Life Instincts (libido/eros)
• Death instincts (thantaos)

Principle of conservation of energy Cathexis -
The investment of energy into a desire creating
tension until the desire is realised Anti-Cathexi
s - The investment of energy in the
prevention/redirection of unacceptable cathexis
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The First Second Topologies
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Psychosexual Stages, Anxiety Ego Defences
The Psychosexual Stages Personality Types   1
Oral Stage(birth 18 months)   2 Anal Stage(18
months 3 years) 3 Phallic Stage(3 6)   4.
Latent Stage (6 - 12) 5. Genital Stage(12 )
Ego-Defense Mechanisms Unconscious attempts to
distort reality and reduce anxiety

• Anxiety
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• reality anxiety
• neurotic anxiety
• moral anxiety

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Accessing the unconscious mind

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• free association
• dream analysis
• humour
• parapraxias/paraphasias (freudian slips)

 A Freudian slip is where you say one thing but
mean your mother. A Freudian slip is where you
say the first thing that comes into your bed.
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Pro's and Con's

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• Cons
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• scientifically weak
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• biology or destiny, no cultural recognition
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• misogynistic
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• pessimistic view of humanity

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Pro's and Cons

• Pros
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• recognition of unconscious motivations
• issues in childhood can have long lasting
• influence
• emphasising the importance of parents in
• moulding their children
• importance of anxiety and mechanisms used to
  avoid it