Theory of Personality

Enhanced diagram of Freud's Structure of the mind, via The Ego and The Id (1923)

Left to right: Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, Hann Sachs. Back row: Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Ernest Jones. circa 1922

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

Ego aka das Ich, "the I"
compare to Central ego in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory
Castration anxiety
compare to Inferiority feelings in Individual Psychology
Libido
Cathexis
Anticathexis
Drive
Conscious aka Cs.
Anxiety
Wish fulfillment
Unconscious aka Ucs.
Superego aka Über-Ich, "the Over-I / I above", super-ego
compare to Antilibidinal ego in Fairbairn's endopsychic structural theory
Repetition compulsion
Reality principle
Psychic determinism
Primary process
Primal scene
Preconscious aka Pcs.
Pleasure principle
Penis envy
Parapraxis aka Freudian slip
Oedipus complex aka Oedipal complex
Object
Narcissism
Instinct
Id aka das Es, "the It"
compare to Id in Ego Psychology
Eros aka Sexual instinct, Erotic instinct, Life instinct