Theories Of Personality Adler and Jung
This flashcard set focuses on Adler and Jung’s theories of personality, emphasizing Adler’s idea of striving for success and superiority as the main human drive and the concept of a final goal that unifies personality and gives behavior purpose.
The sole dynamic force behind people’s behavior
Striving for success and superiority
Key Terms
The sole dynamic force behind people’s behavior
Striving for success and superiority
Unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful
product of creative power
Final goal
Feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through natural tendency to move toward completion
Striving force as compensation
People’s expectations of the future
Fictions
People are motivated not by what is true but by their subjective perceptions of what is true
Fictional final goal/fictionalism
Disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person
Organ dialect
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
The sole dynamic force behind people’s behavior | Striving for success and superiority |
product of creative power | Final goal |
Feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through natural tendency to move toward completion | Striving force as compensation |
People’s expectations of the future | Fictions |
People are motivated not by what is true but by their subjective perceptions of what is true | Fictional final goal/fictionalism |
Disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person | Organ dialect |
Value of all human activity; feeling of oneness with humanity; originates from mother-child relationship | Social interest |
Flavor of a person’s life; product of interaction of heredity, environment, and person’s creative power | Style of life |
A dynamic concept implying movement and this movement is the most salient characteristic of life; ability to freely chooae | Creative power |
The most important factor in maladjustment | Lack of social interest |
Characteristics of maladjustment |
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Accompanied by exaggerated feelings of inferiority; overcompensate inadequacy | Exaggerated physical deficiencies |
Heart of most neuroses | Pampered style of life |
Suspicious; unable to cooperate for the common welfare | Neglected style of life |
Protect exaggerated self-esteem against public disgrace; largely conscious | Safeguarding tendencies |
Undervalue other achievement and overvalue own | Depreciatiob |
Means of hurting ppl who are close to them | Self-accusation |
Overemphasize being manly; results from cultural and social influences | Masculine protest |
Method of determining style of life; shaped by present style of life | Early recollections |
Disguised to deceive dreamer and must be interpreted by another person | Dreams |
Goal of adlerian therapy | Enhance courage, lessen inferiority complex, enhance social interest |
Ancient or archaic images that derive from collective unconscious | Archetypes |
Main source of archetypap material | Dreams |
Archetype of archetypes; unites other archetypes thru self-realization | Self |
Adaptation to the external world and the forward flow of psychic energy | Progression |
Adaptation to the inner world and backward flow of psychic energy | Regression |
Turning inward of psychic energy w/ an orientation toward the subjective | Introversion |
Turning outward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the objective | Extraversion |
Stage: Sporadic consciousness, chaotic | Anarchic phase |
Development of ego and begnning of logical and verbal thinking | Monarchic phase |
Ego is divided into subjective and objective; aware of their existence as separate individs | Dualistic phase |
A period of increased activity, maturing sexuality, growing consciousness | Youth |
Tendency to cling to narrow consciousness of childhood thus, avoiding probs pertinent to present life; happens in Youth stage | Conservative principle |
Period of tremendous potential; most important stage | Middle life |
Fear of death; many suffer from backward orientation at this stage | Old age |
Method of uncovering feeling-toned complexes | Word association test |
Technique requires the patient to concentrate on a single image until that image begins to appear in a different form; reveal archetypal images from unconscious | Active imagination |
Jungian psychotherapy | Therapist must be transformed first before treating others | -transference first 3 stages of therapy |