4.4-4.5a Intro to personality

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Psychodynamic Theories

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Theories emphasizing how unconscious psychological forces like desires and conflicts shape personality and behavior.

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud's psychodynamic theory and therapy aimed at bringing unconscious conflicts into conscious awareness.

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Unconscious

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The part of the mind containing thoughts, feelings, and memories outside of conscious awareness that still influence us.

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Free Association

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A psychoanalytic technique where patients spontaneously report all thoughts and feelings that come to mind.

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Id

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The instinctual and primitive part of personality driven by the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification.

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Ego

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The rational part of personality that mediates between the id's demands and reality, operating on the reality principle.

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Superego

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The internalized moral standards and ideals representing conscience and societal rules.

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Defense Mechanism

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Unconscious psychological strategies used to protect the ego from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

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Repression

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A defense mechanism involving the unconscious pushing of anxiety-provoking thoughts and memories out of awareness.

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Collective Unconscious

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Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of universal human experiences and archetypes.