Theories of Personality: Amelie E. Farinas
Theories of Personality: Amelie E. Farinas
Theories of Personality: Amelie E. Farinas
Personality
March 12, 2022
1:00pm-4:00pm
Amelie E. Farinas
Part-time Instructor
PRayer
Dear Lord,
Thank you for today.
Thank you for ways in which you provide for us all.
For your protection and love we thank you.
Help us to focus our hearts and minds now on what we are about to learn.
Inspire us by your Holy Spirit as we listen and write.
Guide us by your eternal light as we discover more about the world around us.
Our Father….
Sts. Vincent and Louise, pray for us.
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Today’s Topic - march 12, 2021
1 Analytical Psychology of Theory of Neurotic Needs
2 and Trends of Karen Horney
Carl Jung
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Carl Jung
✗ Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
✗ He founded analytical psychology, advancing the idea of
introvert and extrovert personalities
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Two Orientation/ Attitude of the psyche
Extraversion Introversion
An attitude of the psyche An attitude of the
characterized by an psyche characterized
orientation toward the by an orientation
external world and other toward one’s own
people. thoughts and feelings
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Four Major Archetypes
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Four Major Archetypes
THE PERSONA THE ANIMUS/ ANIMA THE SHADOW
The public face or The anima and animus archetypes The dark side of the
role a person refer to Jung’s recognition that personality; the
presents to others. humans are essentially bisexual archetype that contains
primitive animal instincts
Anima archetype Feminine
aspects of the male psyche.
Animus archetype Masculine THE SELF
aspects of the female psyche.
To Jung, the archetype
that represents the unity,
integration, and harmony
of the total personality
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OTHER ARCHETYPES
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Principles of psychiC energy
PRINCIPLE OF PRINCIPLE OF PRINCIPLE OF
OPPOSITES EQUIVALENCE ENTROPY
Jung’s idea that The continuing A tendency toward
redistribution of energy
conflict between within a personality; if
balance or
opposing the energy expended on equilibrium within
processes or certain conditions or the personality; the
activities weakens or
tendencies is disappears, that energy
ideal is an equal
necessary to is transferred elsewhere distribution of
generate psychic in the personality psychic energy
energy over all structures
of the personality.
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Jung’s developmental stages
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“The basic evil is
invariably a lack of
genuine warmth
and affection.”
Karen Horney
✗ Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the
United States during her later career. Her theories questioned
some traditional Freudian views.
✗ She gained popularity through her analysis of the neurotic
aspects of human behavior.
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What Is Neurosis?
Neurosis is defined as an inability to adapt and a tendency to
experience excessive negative or obsessive thoughts and behaviors.
The term has been in use since the 1700s. In 1980, the diagnosis was
removed from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders." While no longer a formal diagnosis, the term is still
often used informally to describe behaviors related to stress and
anxiety.
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Basic evils of parenting
1. Indifference towards the child
2. Rejection of the child
3. Hostility towards the child
4. Obvious preference for a sibling
5. Unfair punishment
6. Ridiculing the child
7. Humiliating the child
8. Erratic behavior
9. Unkept promises
10. Isolation of child from others
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Ten neurotic needs
neurotic needs. Ten irrational defenses against anxiety that
become a permanent part of personality and that affect behavior
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HORNEY’S NEUROTIC NEEDS AND TRENDS
Affection and approval Components of the compliant personality
A dominant partner Movement toward other people
Power
Exploitation
Components of the aggressive personality
Prestige
Admiration Movement against other people
Achievement or ambition
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Other Concepts
Idealized self-image
Externalization
For normal people, the
A way to defend against
self-image is an idealized
the conflict caused by the
picture of oneself built on a
discrepancy between an
flexible, realistic assessment Tyranny of the shoulds idealized and a real
of one’s abilities. For neurotics, An attempt to realize an self-image by projecting
the self image is based on an unattainable idealized the conflict onto the
inflexible, unrealistic self-image by denying outside world
self-appraisal the true self and
behaving in terms of
what we think we should
be doing
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Other Concepts
Feminine psychology
To Horney, a revision of
psychoanalysis to encompass
the psychological conflicts
inherent in the traditional ideal Womb envy
of womanhood and women’s The envy a male feels toward
roles. a female because she can bear
children and he cannot. Womb
envy was Horney’s response
to Freud’s concept of penis
envy in females.
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That’s all
for today!
Any questions?
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