Joyce Margaret L. Nuñez

BS Psychology 2C

COMPARISON OF THEORIES

THEORIST PRINCIPLES OF THEORYDYNAMICS OF

PERSONALITY

OBJECTIVES OF THE

PERSONALITY

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis –

Freud focused on

unconscious mind and

childhood experiences.

Anxiety

Defense Mechanism –

Freud use defense

mechanism as a

response to cope up

with anxiety.

Psychosexual Stages

Dreams

Slips

Free Association

Sexual Drives – Freud

use the term libido to

define the underlying

drives of a person. It is

the emotional psychic

energy derives from

biological drive.

Structures of

Personality - Id, Ego,

and Super Ego

Levels of Mental Life

– Conscious, Pre

Conscious, and

Unconscious,

To bring the

unconscious mind into

conscious

To reconstruct the

personality of a person.

Carl Jung Analytical Psychology

Psyche and Psychie

Personal Unconscious

with Complexes

To reconstruct the

personality of a person

Individuation or Self-

Realization

Stages of Development

Collective Unconscious

with Archetypes

Attitudes -

Introversion and

Extroversion

Functions of Attitude

– Thinking and Feeling;

Sensation and Intuition

He believed that every

person is motivated not

only by repressed

experiences but also by

certain emotionally

toned experiences

inherited from our

ancestors.

Alfred Adler

Individual Psychology

– Adler’s main goal is

to strive for success and

superiority.

Finalism

Fictional Finalism

Safe Guarding

Mechanisms

Dreams

Style of Life – refers to

the flavor of a person’s

life.

Birth Order

Striving for Success or

Superiority

Harry Stack Sullivan Interpersonal Theory -

Needs

Anxiety

Energy Transformation

Acceptance

Erich Fromm Humanistic Psychoanalysis Human Needs

Character OrientationFreedom without Isolation

Melanie Klein Object Relations Theory Good Breast Good Breast

Bad Breast Bad Breast

Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Social Theory Basic Hostility

Basic AnxietyLove and Affection

Erik Erikson Psychosocial TheoryPsychosocial Stages of

Development

Henry Murray Personology