Psychoanalysis Perspective and Personality Week 2 PDF

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Personality Primer and themes
Psychoanalysis Perspective Paper
Core characteristics, Core tendency, Peripheral Statement, Development Statement, Ideal Type...

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Psychoanalysis, originated by Sigmund Freud, is a recognized branch of psychology that investigates the interaction of conscious and unconscious through theories, treatment of mental conditions, and other methods tackling repressed fears and personal conflicts. Psychoanalysis aims to bring repressed memories back to the conscious (Burger, 2019, p. 49). This allows the repression to be acknowledged, understood, and dealt with while preventing another condition or defense mechanism from developing. Psychoanalysts or psychologists encourage the person to be as honest and open as they are comfortable sharing their traumatic experiences and resurfacing their repressed memories. Despite all controversy for its atypical techniques and unknown efficacy, psychotherapists still using Freudian techniques, hypnosis, dream interpretation, and free association (Burger, p. 55). According to Freud, we develop most psychological disorders due to unresolved or traumatic childhood experiences during developmental or psychosexual stages. His development statement involves the five psychosexual stages. Freud claimed that if experiences there were destructive or harmful experiences during the first three stages, that stage(s) influences the rest and the adult behavior. Freud divided the human's life into five stages (oral – birth to 18 months, anal – 19 months to 2 years, phallic – 3-6 years, latency – prepuberty, and genital – pubertyadulthood) (Burger, p. 45). If the child progresses a reaches the genital stage without any problem or fixation at an earlier stage will develop healthy and normal sexually. Through Freud's Psychoanalysis Theory, sexuality, satisfaction, and gratification are the main themes. His theory's core tendency is that humans do not think of the consequences when they want something, want it, and want it now. He claimed that everyone is born with an inner system that defends us and keeps everything we do in check. This system is known as the structural model, and it involves the Id, Ego, and Superego, three core characteristics (Burger, p.38). Freud argued that the ID is responsible for humans' instincts and desires since birth, such as self-gratification, sex, life, and death. People are born without any concern or limitation, selfish, self-centered, and antisocial; he called this a "pleasure principle" and "wish fulfillment" (Burger, p. 38). The Ego is responsible for meeting the ID's needs and desires while also offering it a reality check and sending what is unacceptable by society's standards to the unconscious. The Ego develops around the age of two (Burger, p. 38). Its secondary function is to increase instinctive gratification and pleasure while minimizing punishment and guilt by using its defense mechanisms or unconscious. The last one of the core characteristics is the Superego, and it represents the "conscience" of the mind, internalizing the effects of punishments or the control of the Ego. It develops around the age of five, and it deals with morals and standards and guilt (Burger, p. 39). In this psychoanalysis theory, the peripheral statement is identified as all people have id, Ego, Superego. Yet, the content and behavior differ from one person to the next, influenced by the environment. The ideal type in Freud's theory is reaching the fifth psychosexual or developmental stage (Genital), where the child has sexual gratification and achieves a sense of worth without a lingering interest in the opposite-sex parent, becoming an adult (Burger, p. 46)....