Freud

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Freuds Theory of personality Development

• Unit 6
• Lesson 2

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Objectives

• Discuss and evaluate Freuds Theory of
  Personality Development.
• Identify different defense mechanisms.

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Warm Up

• What school of psychology did Freud establish?
• Psychoanalytic

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Three Part Mind

• Conscious
• Everyday actions at any given moment
• Preconscious
• Easily accessible memories past events
• Unconscious
• All traumatic or unpleasant experiences

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Studying the Unconscious mind Techniques

• Dream Analysis
• Manifest vs latent content, symbolism
• Para Praxes
• Slips of the tongue
• Word Association
• Projective Tests
• Inkblots, TAT
• Free Association

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Three Part Personality

• The Id
• Pursues pleasure instant gratification
• The Ego
• Aware of reality, considers consequences
• The Superego
• Social conscience (ideal) awareness of
  acceptable behaviors

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Psychosexual Stages
Stage Libido Focus
Oral (0-18m) Pleasure centers on mouth sucking, biting, chewing
Anal (18-36m) Pleasure focuses on elimination coping with demands for control
Phallic (3-6y) Pleasure zone is the genitals coping with sexual feelings (Oedipus/Electra Complex) identification development superego
Latency (6-pub) Phase of dormant sexual feelings
Genital (Pub ?) Maturation of sexual interests
Fixation When energy gets locked in stage, can
lead to maladaptive adult behaviors.
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Evaluation

• Personality formed in childhood?
• Observable?
• Reliable?
• Sexual desires as primary motivation?
• Condescending notions of women (as incomplete
  men!)?
• Cause of mental issues?

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Place following stages in order
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Defense Mechanisms

• Egos job
• Protect personality from hostile worldmind from
  anxiety.
• Healthy Use / Overuse

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Role Play Activity

• Put together a quick (2 min) role play that
  demonstrates one of these defense mechanisms at
  work
• 1. Regression retreating to more infantile
  stage
• 2. Reaction Formation acting in opposite of
  true feeling
• 3. Projection attributing own threatening
  impulses to others
• 4. Rationalization explanation/justification of
  action
  reasoning
• 5. Displacement shifting impulses to
  acceptable/less
  threatening activity, object, person
• 6. Denial refusing to believe or perceive
  painful realities
• 7. Repression banishing thoughts/feelings from
  consciousness

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More Activities

• Applying Defense Mechanisms
• Read and apply to examples on back.
• Extension activity
• Here is a typical scenario Jack asked Jill to
  the homecoming dance, but she rejected him.
  Provide an example of each defense mechanism at
  work to protect his ego in this situation.

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Closure

• What defense mechanisms have you used in the past
  year? Do you use some more than others?

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Homework

• Neo-Freudians
• Many took inspiration from, but disagreed with
  his focus
• Examine the key ideas of the psychodynamic
  psychologists
• Carl Jung
• Alfred Adler
• Karen Horney
• Erik Erikson