Personality Theories

The process of pushing the needs and desires that cause guilt into the unconscious

• repression

• depression

• facade

• instinct

According to Freud this is the psychological part of us that contains childhood conflicts we are unaware of but that continue to control our behavior.

• personality

• subconscious

• unconscious

• libido

A person’s broad, long–lasting patterns of behavior. 

• temperament

• personality

• superego

• behavior

This system is roughly synonymous with the conscience.  This system causes guilt when we act on our inner basic needs and drives.

• libido

• superego

• ego

• id

This system contains our basic needs and drives (survival needs) because this is unconscious we don’t have any direct knowledge of what is going on in this system. It is often seen as selfish and demands gratification

• libido

• superego

• ego

• id

This system is the “self” that allows controlled expression within boundaries, in other words this system allows the person to safely express itself while monitoring what the conscious has to say. So it is a balancing system. 

• libido

• superego

• ego

• id

According to Freud these internal energy forces are ones that continuously seek discharge or release.  If these energies are not released in real life then they appear as dreams and fantasies or psychological disturbances. 

• libido

• superego

• ego

• id

Freud's theory that personality is based on impulses and needs in the unconscious mind or in other words from impulses that are unknown to us.

• psychoanalysis

• humanism

• behaviorism

• free association

A Freudian process in which the person says everything that appears in the mind, even if the ideas of images seem unconnected. The basis for this method is that the unconscious always seeks expression in one way or another and so if the patient talks long enough more of the unconscious will start to appear.  After a while this will create a picture of underlying issues. 

• word salad

• Rorschach test

• free association

• psychoanalysis

The mask we wear to hide what we really are or feel. 

• libido

• personality treatments

• cosplay

• persona