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Theories of

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.

We ask this in the name of Jesus,


Amen.

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

Extravert- a person who tends to be Introvert- a person who tends to be


sociable, outgoing, and interested in quiet, and more interested in ideas
people and things than in other people
Four (4) FUnctions of the psyche
1. Intuiting 3. Thinking
- does not arise - involves a conscious
directly from an judgment of whether an
external stimulus. experience is true or false
2. Sensing 4. Feeling
- reproduces an - is expressed in terms of
like or dislike,
experience through pleasantness or
the senses unpleasantness,
stimulation or dullness.
Nonrational Functions
Rational Functions
Eight (8) Psychological types
Extraverted thinking - logical, objective, dogmatic
Extraverted feeling - emotional, sensitive, sociable; more typical of women
than men
Extraverted sensing - Outgoing, pleasure seeking, adaptable
Extraverted intuiting - Creative, able to motivate others, and to seize
opportunities
Introverted thinking - More interested in ideas than in people
Introverted feeling - Reserved, undemonstrative, yet capable of deep
emotion
Introverted sensing - Outwardly detaches expressing themselves in
aesthetic pursuits
Introverted intuiting - Concerned with the unconscious more than everyday
reality
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Aspects of personality
Ego Personal Unconscious Collective Unconscious
The ego is the center of The reservoir of material that The deepest level of the psyche
consciousness, the part of the was once conscious but has containing the accumulation of
psyche concerned with been forgotten or suppressed inherited experiences of human
perceiving, thinking, feeling, and pre-human species.
It contains clusters of
and remembering.
emotionally loaded thoughts The contents of the collective
It is our awareness of which Jung called complexes. unconscious are called
ourselves and is responsible for archetypes.
Complex- To Jung, a core or
carrying out all the normal pattern of emotions,
everyday activities of waking Archetypes
memories, perceptions, and
-Images of universal
life. wishes in the personal
experiences contained in
unconscious organized
the collective unconscious.
around a common theme,
such as power or status

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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

The father : authority figure; stern; powerful


The mother : nurturing, comforting
The child : longing for innocence, rebirth;
salvation
The wise old man : Guidance; knowledge; wisdom
The hero : Champion, defender, rescuer
The maiden : Innocence; desire; purity
The trickster : Deceiver; liar; trouble-maker

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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

Childhood Puberty to young Middle Age


Ego adulthood A period of transition when the
development Adolescents must adapt to focus of the personality shifts
the growing demands of from external to internal in an
begins when reality. The focus is external, attempt to balance the
the child on education, career and unconscious with the conscious
distinguishes family. The conscious is
between self dominant.
and others

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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

1. Affection and approval


2. A dominant partner
3. Power
4. Exploitation
5. Prestige
6. Admiration
7. Achievement or ambition
8. Self-sufficiency
9. Perfection
10. Narrow limits to one’s life
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THREE NEUROTIC TRENDS
Three categories of behaviors and attitudes toward oneself and others
that express a person’s needs; Horney’s revision of the concept of
neurotic needs.

Movement toward Movement against Movement away


other people other people from other people
(the compliant (the aggressive (the detached
personality) personality) personality)
“If I give in, I shall “If I have power, “If I withdraw,
not be hurt.” none will hurt me.” nothing can hurt
me.”

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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

Self-sufficiency Components of the detached


personality
Perfection
Narrow limits to one’s life Movement away from other people

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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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