PSYCHODYNAMIC

AND SOCIO-
CULTURAL THEORIES
 PSYCHODYNAMIC
THEORY
 IS A VIEW THAT EXPLAINS PERSONALITY IN TERMS OF CONSCIOUS
AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES AND BELIEFS.

 REFERS TO BOTH FREUD’S THEORY AND THOSE OF HIS FOLLOWERS.

 SIGMUND FREUD: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 CONSCIOUS- CONSISTS OF ALL

THOSE THINGS WE ARE AWARE
OF.

 PRE-CONSCIOUS- CONTAINS
MATERIAL THAT CAN BE EASILY
BROUGHT TO AWARENESS.

 UNCONSCIOUS- BEYOND
AWARENESS.
 ID- PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

 EGO- REALITY PRINCIPLE

 SUPER EGO- MORAL PRINCIPLE

 ALFRED ADLER: INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND BIRTH
ORDER

 ADLER'S THEORY STATES THAT ALL OF US ARE BORN WITH A SENSE

OF INFERIORITY AS EVIDENCED BY HOW WEAK AND HELPLESS A
NEWBORN IS.

 IN ADDITION TO THE INFERIORITY THEORY OF

PERSONALITY, ADLER ALSO CONSIDERS BIRTH
ORDER AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT
OF OUR PERSONALITY. 

 FIRST BORN CHILDREN

 MIDDLE BORN CHILDREN
 YOUNGEST CHILDREN
 ERIK ERIKSON: THEORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT

 ERIKSON BELIEVED THAT PERSONALITY DEVELOPED IN A SERIES

OF STAGE.
CARL JUNG
• H E B E L I E V E D T H E L I B I D O WA S N O T J U S T S E X U A L
E N E R G Y, B U T I N S T E A D G E N E R A L I Z E D P S Y C H I C
ENERGY.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JUNG AND

FREUD
LEV VYGOTSKY
• H E B E L I E V E D S T R O N G LY T H AT C O M M U N I T Y
P L AY S A C E N T R A L R O L E I N T H E P R O C E S S O F
"MAKING MEANING.“

V Y G O T S K Y ' S T H E O R Y D I F F E R S F R O M T H AT
O F P I A G E T I N A N U M B E R O F I M P O RTA N T
WAY S :