CHAPTER 13:

PERSONALITY
PSYCHODYNAMIC
THEORY CONT.
JIGSAW INSTRUCTIONS
I will be giving you a number. After you receive a number, get with three other
people with a different number. (ex: if you are a 1, get into a group with a 2, 3, and
4).
Each group will be assigned a different theorist from the following:
Carl Jung (Group A)
Alfred Adler (Group B)
Karen Horney (Group C)

Using the Internet and your textbook (pgs 518-519), research your theorist based
on the explanation given to you and put it on your poster.
After, get into a group with your same number and share your theorist so that your
whole group is an expert on every theorist.
Helpful website: https://www.verywellmind.com/who-were-the-neo-freudians-
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 Accepted Freud’s ideas
about:
1. The importance of the
unconscious and childhood
relationships in shaping
personality
2. The id/ego/superego structure
of personality
3. The role of defense
mechanisms in reducing
anxiety about uncomfortable
ideas
NEO-FREUDIAN, PSYCHODYNAMIC
THEORISTS
Differed from Freud in
a few ways:
1. Adler and Horney believed
that anxiety and personality
are a function of social, not
sexual tensions in childhood
2. Jung believed that we have
a collective unconscious,
containing images from our
species’ experiences, not just
personal repressed
memories and wishes
Quick Overview
UPDATES TO FREUD’S THEORY
1. Development in lifelong, not set in stone by childhood.
2. Peers have more influence on personality, and parents less, than Freud
assumed.
3. Slips of the tongue have many possible origins, less likely to reveal deep
unconscious conflicts and wishes.
REVIEW OF PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY Questions?