personality - an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
psychodynamic theories - theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.
psychoanalysis - (1) Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
(2) Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed that the patient’s free associations, resistances, and dreams — and the analyst’s interpretations of them — released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
unconscious - according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
free association - in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how unimportant or embarrassing.
Identification - the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.
fixation - (1) in cognition, the inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an obstacle to problem solving.
(2) in psychoanalytic theory, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts
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