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Title: 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

3
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
  •  
  • reality anxiety
  • neurotic anxiety
  • moral anxiety

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

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Pro's and Cons
  • Pros
  •  
  • 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
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