THEORISTPRINCIPLES OF

THEORYDYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY

OBJECTIVES OF THE THEORY

Sigmund Freud

Freud’s Psychoanalysis explains the relation of past experience to the in the present life. It reveals the unconscious state of mind being the primary foundation of personality. Freudian slips and dreams are explains as unconscious intentions. Freud formulated defense mechanisms as a response to cope up with anxiety.Free Association - Technique or method for exploring the mental processes.

Sexual Drives are impulses that serve as motivational forces. Freud uses the term libido to define the underlying drives of a person. It is the emotional psychic energy derives from biological drive.Freud’s psychosexual stages illustrate his concept of childhood in relation with the sexual drives

Structure of Personality : Id, Ego, and Super Ego

Levels of Mental Life: Conscious, Pre Conscious, and Unconscious,

Anxiety, as by definition of Freud, is sensations that warn a person against impending danger.

The psychoanalysis theory brings forth the relation of unconscious mind and past experiences into consciousness and present life.

Freud engages to construct the personality of a person.

Carl Gustav Jung

Analytical Psychology of Jung also take in account of both the conscious and unconscious level but unlike Freud, the

Levels of Psyche – Just like Freud, Jung believed that that there are both conscious and unconscious.

Yung take account of both the conscious and the unconscious. He defines the unconscious factor as the portion of

unconscious portion springs from distant past of human existence.

Transcendence - According to Jung, Transcendence is the acceptance of uniqueness as an individual. It is also called individuation.

Attitudes - Introversion and ExtroversionAn introvert is a person whose interest is generally directed inward toward his own feelings and thoughts, in contrast to an extravert, whose attention is directed toward other people

and the outside world. 

Personal Unconscious with its ComplexesCollective Unconscious and its Archetypes; archetypes are universal, archaic patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious.

Functions of Attitude – Thinking and Feeling; Sensation and Intuition

the existentialism of humanity. He insists the connection of human beings through the rooted unconscious part.

Alfred AdlerAdler’s individual psychology presents an optimistic view of people while resting heavily on the notion of social interest, that is, a feeling of oneness with all humankind. Freud saw all human motivation reduced to sex and aggression while Adler saw people as being motivated mostly by social influences and the

Style of Life – refers to the flavor of a person’s life. It it’s the attitude towards the world.

Birth Order – in Alderian, the rank position in the family affects the social life of the individual especially the siblings.

Safe Guarding Mechanisms - Is a process to defend us in

Adler’s Individual Psychology explained the drives of striving for superiority and success as the dynamic forces of personality. He concluded that every person has their own final goal.

striving for superiority or success. The subjective perceptions of a person shape his/her personality. Fictional Finalism creates the goal in relation with the specific causality. The individual’s creative power determines his/.her goal

Social Interest-Adaptation of an individual in their society in accordance in their society.

reality, merely unconscious to cope up with anxiety.-

Harry Stack Sullivan Sullivan’s

Interpersonal Theory emphasizes positive interpersonal relationships as the primary concern for healthy human development. Furthermore, there are tensions in an individual that requires energy transformation that will eventually become covert or overt behavior.

Dynamisms – He termed dynamisms to refer to a typical pattern of behavior

Stages of Development - just like Freud, Sullivan develop Stages of Development; however Sullivan classified it as 7 stages this includes: infancy, childhood, juvenile, pre- adolescence, early adolescence and late adolescence.

Levels of Cognition – He recognize three ways of perceiving things; the Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic level.

Security Operations – according the Sullivan, these are devices for reducing or enhancing

Sullivan insisted the factor of interpersonal relationship in the development of the individual and in shaping the personality.

the anxiety

Erich Fromm

Humanistic Psychoanalysis of Fromm refers to the separation of humanity from the natural world provides the feeling of loneliness and isolation; the root of basic anxiety.

Basic Needs – Fromm believed that we have needs beyond basic. And this needs pursue to find the answer on the existence.

Character Orientation - Pattern of energy transformation between of interacting people on person.

Escape Mechanisms – these are devices for escaping a problem and avoiding isolation.

Fromm integrated his definition of Freedom without Isolation.