Theory of Personality
Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis. Dreams, free association, transference, psychosexual developmental phases, libido, psychic topography and structure, and more.
His case studies were known for their radical candor.
Freud's opinions of the core of human motivations led the way to later innovators seeking to prove a point: ego psychologists like Erikson. As well as Jung, Adler, Horney, Sullivan, and Fromm, who broke ranks from the psychoanalytic community to form their own theories of personality. Object relational theorists will take the early years and biases toward objects into their own interpretations, a la Klein, Winnicott, Arlow, Kohut, Kernberg, Guntrip, and more.
Developmental theory
Narcissism
Psychosexual phases
Topographic model
- Cs.
- Ucs.
- Pcs.
Structural model
The Ego and the Id
- Id
- Ego
- Super-ego
Terms
- Libido
- Anticathexis
- Castration anxiety
compare to Inferiority feelings in Individual Psychology - Anxiety
- Penis envy
- Object
- Oedipus complex aka Oedipal complex
- Parapraxis aka Freudian slip
- Narcissism
- Instinct
- Eros aka Sexual instinct, Erotic instinct, Life instinct
- Id aka das Es, "the It"
compare to Id in Ego Psychology - Conscious aka Cs.
- Cathexis
- Ego aka das Ich, "the I"
compare to Central ego in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory - Drive
- Repetition compulsion
- Psychic determinism
- Superego aka Über-Ich, "the Over-I / I above", super-ego
compare to Antilibidinal ego in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory - Reality principle
- Primary process
- Preconscious aka Pcs.
- Primal scene
- Pleasure principle
- Unconscious aka Ucs.
- Wish fulfillment