Personality Theories
Outline Part One
INTRODUCTION
- Definition of personality
- Research methods -- Quantitative
- Personality tests
- Correlation
- Experimentation
- Control
- Realism
- Generalization
- Samples
- Research methods -- Qualitative
- Introspection
- Observation
- Interviews
- Case studies
- Issues
- Ethnocentrism
- Egocentrism
- Dogmatism
FREUD
- Introduction
- Levels
- Conscious
- Preconscious
- Unconscious
- Structure
- Id
- Drives or instincts
- Wishes
- Primary process
- Pleasure principle
- Ego
- Secondary process
- Reality principle
- Superego
- Instincts
- Life (libido)
- Death
- Nirvana principle
- Aggression
- Anxiety
- Realistic (fear)
- Moral (guilt)
- Neurotic
- Ego defense mechanisms (Anna Freud)
- Denial
- Repression
- Asceticism
- Isolation
- Displacement
- Turning-against-the-self
- Projection
- Altruistic surrender
- Reaction formation
- Undoing
- Introjection
- Identification with the aggressor
- Regression
- Rationalization
- Sublimation
- Development
- Sex as the need to touch and be touched
- Erogenous zones
- Stages and crises
- Oral -- weaning
- Anal -- potty training
- Phallic
- Latent
- Genital
- Oedipal crisis
- Castration anxiety
- Penis envy
- Character types
- Fixation
- Oral passive
- Oral aggressive
- Anal retentive
- Anal explulsive
- Phallic (general)
- Genital:"love and work"
- Therapy
- Relaxed atmosphere
- Free association
- Resistance clues
- Dream analysis
- Parapraxis
- Projective tests
- Transference
- Catharsis
- Insight
ANNA
FREUD
- Ego Psychology
- Ego defense mechanisms (see Freud, above)
ERIKSON
- Epigenetic principle
- Optimal times
- Tasks or crises
- Maladaptive and malignant tendencies
- Virtue or strengths
- Mutuality
- Stages
- I. Infant
- Trust vs mistrust
- Sensory maladjustment / withdrawal
- Hope
- II. Toddler
- Autonomy vs shame and doubt
- Impulsiveness / compulsion
- Willpower
- III. Preschooler
- Initiative vs guilt
- Ruthlessness / inhibition
- Purpose
- IV. School child
- Industry vs inferiority
- Narrow viruosity / inertia
- Competency
- V. Adolescent
- Ego-identity vs role confusion
- Fanaticism / repudiation
- Fidelity
- Rites of passage
- Identity crisis
- Psychosocial moratorium
- VI. Young adult
- Intimacy vs isolation
- Promiscuity / exclusivity
- Love
- VII. Middle adult
- Generativity vs stagnation
- Midlife crisis
- Overextension / rejectivity
- Caring
- VIII. Late adult
- Ego-integrity vs despair
- Presumption / disdain
- Wisdom
RANK
- The hero myth
- Will
- Types
- Life instinct
- Death instinct
JUNG
- Ego
- Personal unconscious
- Collective unconscious
- Archetypes
- Mother
- Mana
- Shadow
- Persona
- Anima/animus
- Self
- Principles
- Principle of opposites
- Principle of equivalence
- Principle of entropy
- Transcendence of opposites
- Synchronicity
- Types
- Introversion
- Extraversion
- Sensing
- Thinking
- Intuiting
- Feeling
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator