Hi, I'm Michael Corayer and this is Psych Exam Review. In the past few videos we've looked
at how Freud's ideas relate to personality and personality development. In this video I'd like
to take a look at how Freud's ideas influenced the next generation of theorists. These are the
psychodynamic theorists or the Neo-Freudians. Now these psychodynamic theorists shared a lot
of common ground with Freud but they disagreed on some of the details. So two things that they
shared where they believed that unconscious influences were fundamental for understanding
behavior, and they also believed that early childhood experiences were important for shaping
personality. So the first theorist that we'll look at is Alfred Adler. And here's a picture of Adler,
almost dabbing here, and Adler disagreed with Freud when it came to his emphasis on sex and
aggression. So Adler thought that while we do have sexual and aggressive drives that
these weren't the most important aspects of understanding personality. And so he placed
emphasis on social tensions and he thought that our social tensions had the potential to create
things like an inferiority complex, or on the positive side, it could create a strive for
superiority. Alright next we'll look at Karen Horney. And here's a picture of Horney here,
and Horney disagreed with Freud in that she felt some of his theories were overly male-centric.
In particular, his suggestion that all females experience penis envy as an important part of
their normal development and so in contrast to this idea Horney proposed the idea of womb envy.
This is the idea that men are jealous of women because women have the ability to give birth
and bring new life into the world and she thought that this could create unconscious
fears or drives in men that would cause them to want to dominate or disparage women.
Ok, lastly we'll look at probably the most famous of the neo-Freudian psychodynamic
theorists and this is Carl Gustav Jung. And here's a picture of a young Jung. Like Adler,
Jung disagreed with Freud in his emphasis on sexual and aggressive drives and what Jung
proposed instead was an emphasis on people's aims and aspirations. He thought these were the
more important drives motivating behavior. And unlike Adler, who emphasized social tensions,
Jung believed that the focus of conflict should be considering the conflict within the individual
rather than conflict with society or conflict with reality. Now Jung is also known for a few
other concepts and probably the most famous of these is his idea of a collective unconscious.
And so the idea of a collective unconscious is that not only do we have our own unconscious,
which contains wishes, desires, and fears, but there's also a shared form of the unconscious
that everyone has. This is the collective unconscious and so it contains things that
we would all recognize; it contains universal symbols, motifs, and memories that have been
passed down through generations. And so they're shared by all humans and one example of something
that will be in the collective unconscious is the idea of an archetype. So archetypes refer to these
universal motifs that present ideas like devils, heroes, tricksters, and sages and that these are
sort of archetypal characters that people all over the world could recognize and that we would
find these in stories and in literature. And we could immediately recognize these presentations
even though they might vary slightly from culture to culture; that they would still be universal.
So one way you could think about archetypes, if you think of really popular films like Star Wars,
or, you know, popular Disney movies like The Lion King and the idea that people from many different
cultures could see these stories and identify the heroes and the devils and trickster characters
because these, Jung would said, were part of the collective unconscious that we all share. Ok,
so this is a basic introduction to some of these other psychodynamic theorists and I'm not going
to go into a lot of detail as most introductory classes don't, but maybe this is something that I
can come back to and talk about in future videos. And we will come back to some of the psychodynamic
ideas when we talk about treatment in a future unit. Ok, I hope you found this helpful, if so,
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