● Classic perspective on personality
○ What is personality
■ Personality- our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
○ The psychodynamic theories- view human behavior as a dynamic interaction
between the conscious and unconscious mind, including associated motives and
conflicts.
● Psychoanalysis- Freud’s theory of personality and the associated
treatment techniques
■ Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective: exploring the unconscious
● Unconscious (Freud)- unacceptable thoughts or feelings
● Free association- Idea that unconscious can explored by having
someone say whatever comes to mind
● Repression- forcibly from our consciousness bc disturbing
● Personality structure
○ Id- operates on the pleasure principle- immediate
gratification- reservoir of unconscious energy
○ Ego- Largely conscious, thoughtful on demands of id and
superego- reality principle- satisfy desires in way that is
most beneficial
○ Superego- the moral- force ego to not only consider real
the the IDEAL, how we OUGHT to be, opposite of ID
● Personality development
○ Psychosexual stages- childhood stages of development-
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital. Where id’s pleasure
comes from various erogenous zones
■ Oral (0-18) pleasure centers on mouth, biting,
chewing, sucking
■ Anal(18-36) Pleasure focused on bowel and
bladder elimination; coping with demands for
control
■ Phallic (3-6) Pleasure focused on genital, to handle
incestuous sexual feelings
■ Latency (6-pub) phase of dormant sexual feelings
■ Genital (puberty on) maturation of sexual interest
○ Identification- incorporation of parents values into
superegos
○ Oedipus complex- sexual desire for mothers and
hatred/jealousy of father
○ Fixation- lingering focus of pleasure seeking as a result of
unresolved conflicts earlier
● Defense mechanisms- tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by
distorting reality, unconscious
○ What is personality
■ Personality- our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
○ The psychodynamic theories- view human behavior as a dynamic interaction
between the conscious and unconscious mind, including associated motives and
conflicts.
● Psychoanalysis- Freud’s theory of personality and the associated
treatment techniques
■ Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective: exploring the unconscious
● Unconscious (Freud)- unacceptable thoughts or feelings
● Free association- Idea that unconscious can explored by having
someone say whatever comes to mind
● Repression- forcibly from our consciousness bc disturbing
● Personality structure
○ Id- operates on the pleasure principle- immediate
gratification- reservoir of unconscious energy
○ Ego- Largely conscious, thoughtful on demands of id and
superego- reality principle- satisfy desires in way that is
most beneficial
○ Superego- the moral- force ego to not only consider real
the the IDEAL, how we OUGHT to be, opposite of ID
● Personality development
○ Psychosexual stages- childhood stages of development-
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital. Where id’s pleasure
comes from various erogenous zones
■ Oral (0-18) pleasure centers on mouth, biting,
chewing, sucking
■ Anal(18-36) Pleasure focused on bowel and
bladder elimination; coping with demands for
control
■ Phallic (3-6) Pleasure focused on genital, to handle
incestuous sexual feelings
■ Latency (6-pub) phase of dormant sexual feelings
■ Genital (puberty on) maturation of sexual interest
○ Identification- incorporation of parents values into
superegos
○ Oedipus complex- sexual desire for mothers and
hatred/jealousy of father
○ Fixation- lingering focus of pleasure seeking as a result of
unresolved conflicts earlier
● Defense mechanisms- tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by
distorting reality, unconscious
