Unlocking the Mysteries of Personality Theories

Key Concepts in Personality Theories

• Freud's theory of the unconscious includes the id, ego, and superego, and childhood experiences can appear in adult dreams.
• Different types of anxiety include neurotic, moral, and realistic, and defense mechanisms include repression, reaction, displacement, and more.
• Psychological maturity is a stage attained after passing through earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner.
• Adler's ideas include striving for success or superiority, compensating for feelings of inferiority or weakness, and developing a neglected style of life.
• The safeguarding tendency involves protective mechanisms that maintain exaggerated feelings of superiority.
• Early recollections are used to understand a person's style of life, and the collective unconscious originates from repeated experiences of our ancestors.
• Jungian archetypes include persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother, wise old man, and hero-self.
• There are two basic attitudes (introversion and extraversion) and four separate functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting) in Jungian theory.
• The focus of Jungian dream interpretation is to uncover elements from the personal and collective unconscious and integrate them into consciousness.
• Kleinian therapy focuses on transference, counter-transference, and unconscious phantasy to assist patients in resolving conflicts.
• Western society's impact on love can lead to unrealistic expectations and disappointment in relationships.
• Horney's fundamental styles of relating to others include moving toward, against, and away from people, and combatting basic anxiety.