1. F REUD ’ S T HEORY OF PERSONALITY D EVELOPMENT Unit 6 Lesson 2

2. O BJECTIVES Discuss and evaluate Freud’s Theory of Personality Development. Identify different defense mechanisms.

3. W ARM U P What school of psychology did Freud establish? Psychoanalytic

4. T HREE P ART M IND Conscious Everyday actions at any given moment Preconscious Easily accessible memories & past events Unconscious All traumatic or unpleasant experiences

5. S TUDYING THE U NCONSCIOUS MIND : T ECHNIQUES Dream Analysis Manifest vs latent content, symbolism Para Praxes Slips of the tongue Word Association Projective Tests Inkblots, TAT Free Association

6. T HREE P ART P ERSONALITY The Id Pursues pleasure & instant gratification The Ego Aware of reality, considers consequences The Superego Social conscience (ideal) & awareness of acceptable behaviors

8. P SYCHOSEXUAL S TAGES StageLibido Focus Oral (0-18m)Pleasure centers on mouth – sucking, biting, chewing Anal (18-36m)Pleasure focuses on elimination; coping with demands for control Phallic (3-6y)Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with sexual feelings (Oedipus/Electra Complex); identification; development superego Latency (6-pub)Phase of dormant sexual feelings Genital (Pub  )Maturation of sexual interests Fixation : When energy gets locked in stage, can lead to maladaptive adult behaviors.

9. E VALUATION Personality formed in childhood? Observable? Reliable? Sexual desires as primary motivation? Condescending notions of women (as incomplete men!)? Cause of mental issues?

10. P LACE FOLLOWING STAGES IN ORDER

11. D EFENSE M ECHANISMS Ego’s job Protect personality from hostile world…mind from anxiety. Healthy Use / Overuse

12. R OLE P LAY A CTIVITY Put together a quick (2 min) role play that demonstrates one of these defense mechanisms at work: 1. Regression – retreating to more infantile stage 2. Reaction Formation – acting in opposite of true feeling 3. Projection – attributing own threatening impulses to others 4. Rationalization – explanation/justification of action; reasoning 5. Displacement – shifting impulses to acceptable/less threatening activity, object, person 6. Denial – refusing to believe or perceive painful realities 7. Repression – banishing thoughts/feelings from consciousness

13. M ORE A CTIVITIES : Applying Defense Mechanisms Read and apply to examples on back. Extension activity: Here is a typical scenario – Jack asked Jill to the homecoming dance, but she rejected him. Provide an example of each defense mechanism at work to protect his ego in this situation.

14. C LOSURE What defense mechanisms have you used in the past year? Do you use some more than others?

15. H OMEWORK Neo-Freudians Many took inspiration from, but disagreed with his focus… Examine the key ideas of the psychodynamic psychologists Carl Jung Alfred Adler Karen Horney Erik Erikson