Sigmund Freud

1
Personality Psychology

• Sigmund Freud

2
History

• Freud's Personal History
• Born May 6, 1856 in Moravia (turned into
  Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic)
• Died September 23, 1939 in London of cancer
• Lived Eighty years in Vienna, Austria until
  Nazis invaded in 1838

3
History

• Freud's Personal History
• Very intelligent child. Mothers favorite My
  golden Sigi
• Married Martha Bernays, had 6 children. Anna
  followed in his footsteps.
• Career in Medicine/Wanted to be a researcher.

4
History

• Freud's Professional History
• Studied physiology believed body was a closed
  system and thought reductionism could be applied
  to mind.
• Interest in Hypnosis
• Treatment of Hysteria

5
Theory Fundamental Assumptions

• Core of Personality
• Psychic Determinism
• Hydraulic System Homeostasis
• Psychic Energy - Closed System
• Libido
• Cathexis
• Life Death Instinct

6
Levels of Consciousness

• Conscious
• Preconscious
• Unconscious

7
Personality Structures

• Id
• Pleasure Principle
• Primary Process Thought
• Wish Fulfillment
• Ego
• Reality Principle
• Secondary Process Thought
• Superego
• Ego Ideal
• Conscience
• Guilt

8
Anxiety

• Anxiety
• Types
• Objective
• Neurotic
• Ego vs. Id
• Moral
• Ego vs. Superego

9
Defense Mechanism

• Repression
• Denial
• Displacement
• Rationalization
• Reaction formation
• Regression
• Projection
• Sublimation
• Identification/Introjection
• Intellectualization
• Undoing

10
Psychosexual Stages

• Fixations
• Oral (0-1)
• Expulsive
• Retentive
• Anal (1-3)
• Expulsive
• Retentive
• Phallic (3-6)
• Latency (6-12)
• Genital (Adolescence)