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Neo-Freudian Personality Theory

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The Neo-Freudian is a group of psychiatrists and psychologists that constituted the followers of Sigmund Freud&period; Freud is popularly known as the father of psychiatry&comma; and by many&comma; father of modern personality theory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Because Sigmund had always been very stubborn and rigid about his ideas and theories&comma; hence his members and followers began to break from the Freudian camp&period; These neo-Freudians extended Freud’s theory in social and cultural directions&comma; and came up with theories that were well received in their own right&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">These newly emerged theories&comma; however&comma; held the same underlying beliefs and ideas of psychoanalysis- a popular Freudian theory of personality&period; Other than that&comma; these theories also maintained other ideas of Freud&comma; like defense mechanisms related to unconsciousness&comma; and role of unconsciousness in important drive in human emotions&comma; cognitions&comma; thoughts and behavior&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The main disagreements revolved around his failure to incorporate social and cultural influences&comma; his belief that adult personality is shaped by early childhood experiences&comma; and last but not the least&comma; the negativity in Freud’s theories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In simple words&comma; those who left the psychoanalytical society to form their own schools of thoughts are known as Psychodynamic or Neo-Freudians&period; These Neo-Freudians believed that social relationships are fundamental to the formation and developmental of personality&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Among these&comma; we will discuss Carl Jung’s Individual psychology&comma; Alfred Adler’s Individual psychology&comma; Erik and Erickson’s Ego psychology&comma; Karen Horney&comma; Stack Sullivan and Erik Fromm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Alfred Adler believed that we are born with a sense of inferior&period; He placed much stress on a human being’s efforts in overcoming the feelings of inferiority by concluding that we are born as weak and helpless and strive to become strong and superior&period; Alfred also gave in the idea of parenting by highlighting two major situations he called over-pampering or completing neglecting a child&period; He believed both played a negative role in damaging the personality of an individual as an adult&period; All in all&comma; he viewed human beings as seeking to attain various rational goals&comma; which he called style of life&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">As per Adler’s birth order theory&comma; he believed that the order in which you born into a family greatly influences his personality&period; For instance&comma; the oldest kid of the family might be the too spoilt and later have a poorly develop personality due to all the attention he got being the oldest one and so on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Carl Jung on the other hand represented his theory called the collective unconscious according to which a person’s fears&comma; thoughts&comma; behavior exhibited by children and adults are significantly similar across times and cultures&period; In his newly develop school of thought known as Analytical psychology&comma; he discussed how collective unconsciousness influenced personality&period; In light of his theory he spoke of how the young developed inevitable fear of the dark&comma; how infants develop immediate attachment to their mothers and certain images like that of sun&comma; moon&comma; angels and demons predominate themes since the beginning of times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;large&rsqb;Erik Erikson&comma; another psychodynamic came up with new ideas on ego criticizing that ego Freud described was far more than just a relationship between superego and the id&period; Considering ego as a positive driving force in development&comma; he said that ego aimed at maintaining and establishing a good identity&period; Conversely&comma; those with poor egos suffer what we call identity crises&period; In contrast to Freud’s psychosexual stages&comma; Erik came up with his theory of individuals psychosocial developmental stages&period; This theory constitutes 8 significant stages&comma; each with two possible outcomes&period; These stages are labeled as&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">1&period; Trust VS Mistrust<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">2&period; Autonomy VS Shame and Doubt<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">3&period; Initiative VS Guilt<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">4&period; Industry VS Inferiority<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">5&period; Identity VS role Confusion<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">6&period; Intimacy VS Isolation<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">7&period; Generativity VS Stagnation<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">8&period; Ego Integrity VS Despair <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Harry Stack Sullivan&comma; another Neo-Freudian&comma; laid importance on the fact that people always establish relationships with others so as to gain positivity and develop a healthy acquaintance&period; He was particularly concerned with the individual&&num;8217&semi;s efforts to reduce tensions&comma; such as anxiety&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Karen Horney a neo-Freudian was also interested in anxiety&period; She engrossed on the impact of child-parent relationships and the individual&&num;8217&semi;s desire to overcome feelings of anxiety&period; Horney classified the individuals into three groups of personality&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">1&period; Compliant individuals&colon; are those who seek others&period; These individuals desire to be loved&comma; feel wanted and appreciated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">2&period; Aggressive individuals&colon; are those who move along others&period; These individuals desire to excel&comma; irrespective of consequences and win admiration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">3&period; Detached individuals&colon; are those who resent others&period; These individuals wished to be independent and self-reliant&period; They exhibit characteristics like self-sufficiency&comma; individualism and freedom from obligations&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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