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Freud's View of Personality
Freud's View of Personality
Freudian view of
personality
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▪ Subconscious/Preconscious
▪ Unconscious
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STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY
• Repression
• Denial
• Reaction Formation
• Projection
• Regression
• Rationalization
• Displacement
• Sublimation
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Oral (Birth to 1 year)
Psychosexual • Id dominant
stages of • Mouth as the erogenous zone
• Oral aggressive or oral incorporative behaviours
development Anal (1-3 years)
• Organs of excretion are the erogenous zones
• Toilet training
• Anal aggressive or anal retentive personality
Phallic (4-5 years)
• Genital as the erogenous zone
• Oedipus complex and Electra complex
Latency (5-Puberty)
• A period of no psychoological conflicts
• Libido is sublimed into other activities and hobbies
Genital (Adolescence-Adulthood)
• Period of relatively less conflicts
• Development of sex-role identity