Theories of Personality 9th Edition

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 27 secretive friendships. Most of these deeply emotional relationships came to an unhappy end, a ...

28 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Levels of Mental Life Freud’s greatest contribution to personality theory is his exploration o ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 29 phylogenetic endowment (Freud, 1917/1963, 1933/1964). Freud’s notion of phylogenetic endowmen ...

30 Part II Psychodynamic Theories disguised form. Some of these images never become conscious because if we recognized them as d ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 31 Provinces of the Mind For nearly 2 decades, Freud’s only model of the mind was the topographi ...

32 Part II Psychodynamic Theories territorial existence, of course, but are merely hypothetical constructs. They interact with t ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 33 A newborn infant is the personification of an id unencumbered by restrictions of ego and supe ...

34 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Finding itself surrounded on three sides by divergent and hostile forces, the ego reacts in a ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 35 The superego is not concerned with the happiness of the ego. It strives blindly and unrealist ...

36 Part II Psychodynamic Theories Dynamics of Personality Levels of mental life and provinces of the mind refer to the structure ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 37 Infants are primarily self-centered, with their libido invested almost exclu- sively on their ...

38 Part II Psychodynamic Theories aggressive tendency is present in everyone and is the explanation for wars, atroc- ities, and ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 39 fearful object. We would experience fear, for example, if our motor vehicle sud- denly began ...

40 Part II Psychodynamic Theories unchanged in the unconscious. Second, they could force their way into conscious- ness in an un ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 41 Fixation Psychical growth normally proceeds in a somewhat continuous fashion through the vari ...

42 Part II Psychodynamic Theories is always characterized by repressed homosexual feelings toward the persecutor. Freud believed ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 43 In summary, all defense mechanisms protect the ego against anxiety. They are universal in tha ...

44 Part II Psychodynamic Theories These anxieties are generally accompanied by feelings of ambiva- lence toward their love objec ...

Chapter 2 Freud: Psychoanalysis 45 to a baby. He also believed that in the unconscious the concepts of penis and baby—because bo ...

46 Part II Psychodynamic Theories The onset of gender awareness is an important part of the Oedipal complex. he develops some am ...