THEORIST

Sigmund Freud

PRINCIPLES OF
THEORY

Freuds
Psychoanalysis
explains the relation of
past experience to the
in the present life. It
reveals the unconscious
state of mind being the
primary foundation of
personality. Freudian
slips and dreams are
explains as unconscious
intentions.
Freud formulated
defense mechanisms
as a response to cope
up with anxiety.
Free Association Technique or method
for exploring the
mental processes.

DYNAMICS OF
PERSONALITY

OBJECTIVES OF
THE THEORY

Sexual Drives are

impulses that serve as
motivational forces.
Freud uses the term
libido to define the
underlying drives of a
person. It is the
emotional psychic
energy derives from
biological drive.
Freuds psychosexual
stages illustrate his
concept of childhood in
relation with the sexual
drives

The psychoanalysis
theory brings forth the
relation of unconscious
mind and past
experiences into
consciousness and
present life.
Freud engages to
construct the
personality of a person.

Structure of
Personality : Id, Ego,
and Super Ego
Levels of Mental Life:
Conscious, Pre
Conscious, and
Unconscious,
Anxiety, as by
definition of Freud, is
sensations that warn a
person against
impending danger.

Carl Gustav Jung

Analytical Psychology
of Jung also take in
account of both the
conscious and
unconscious level but
unlike Freud, the

Levels of Psyche Just

like Freud, Jung
believed that that there
are both conscious and
unconscious.

Yung take account of

both the conscious and
the unconscious. He
defines the unconscious
factor as the portion of

unconscious portion
springs from distant
past of human
existence.
Transcendence According to Jung,
Transcendence is the
acceptance of
uniqueness as an
individual. It is also
called individuation.

Attitudes Introversion and

Extroversion
An introvert is a
person whose interest is
generally directed
inward toward his own
feelings and thoughts,
in contrast to
an extravert, whose
attention is directed
toward other people

the existentialism of
humanity. He insists the
connection of human
beings through the
rooted unconscious
part.

and the outside world.

Personal Unconscious
with its Complexes
Collective
Unconscious and its
Archetypes;
archetypes are
universal, archaic
patterns and images
that derive from the
collective unconscious.
Functions of Attitude
Thinking and Feeling;
Sensation and Intuition

Alfred Adler

Adlers individual
psychology presents an
optimistic view of
people while resting
heavily on the notion of
social interest, that is, a
feeling of oneness with
all humankind. Freud
saw all human
motivation reduced to
sex and aggression
while Adler saw people
as being motivated
mostly by social
influences and the

Style of Life refers to

the flavor of a persons
life. It its the attitude
towards the world.
Birth Order in
Alderian, the rank
position in the family
affects the social life of
the individual
especially the siblings.
Safe Guarding
Mechanisms - Is a
process to defend us in

Adlers Individual
Psychology explained
the drives of striving
for superiority and
success as the dynamic
forces of personality.
He concluded that
every person has their
own final goal.

striving for superiority

or success. The
subjective perceptions
of a person shape
his/her personality.
Fictional Finalism
creates the goal in
relation with the
specific causality. The
individuals creative
power determines
his/.her goal

reality, merely
unconscious to cope up
with anxiety.-

Social InterestAdaptation of an
individual in their
society in accordance
in their society.

Harry Stack
Sullivan

Sullivans
Interpersonal Theory
emphasizes positive
interpersonal
relationships as the
primary concern for
healthy human
development.
Furthermore, there are
tensions in an
individual that requires
energy transformation
that will eventually
become covert or overt
behavior.
Dynamisms He
termed dynamisms to
refer to a typical pattern
of behavior

Stages of
Development - just
like Freud, Sullivan
develop Stages of
Development; however
Sullivan classified it as
7 stages this includes:
infancy, childhood,
juvenile, preadolescence, early
adolescence and late
adolescence.

Levels of Cognition
He recognize three
ways of perceiving
things; the Prototaxic,
Parataxic, and Syntaxic
level.

Security Operations
according the Sullivan,

Sullivan insisted the

factor of interpersonal
relationship in the
development of the
individual and in
shaping the personality.

these are devices for

reducing or enhancing
the anxiety

Erich Fromm

Humanistic
Psychoanalysis of
Fromm refers to the
separation of humanity
from the natural world
provides the feeling of
loneliness and
isolation; the root of
basic anxiety.
Basic Needs Fromm
believed that we have
needs beyond basic.
And this needs pursue
to find the answer on
the existence.

Character Orientation
- Pattern of energy
transformation between
of interacting people on
person.
Escape Mechanisms
these are devices for
escaping a problem and
avoiding isolation.

Fromm integrated his

definition of Freedom
without Isolation.