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Personality: relatively enduring behavioural characteristics and internal predispositions that describe how a person reacts to the environment

Psychodynamic Perspectives
(Freud, Jung, Adler)
Freud
Conflict, Anxiety and Defense
-id, ego, and superego always in conflict with on another
- such conflicts may produce anxiety that one becomes conscious of
-the distress caused by the anxiety motivates people to rid themselves of the anxiety
Humans use defense mechanisms that protect us from emotions such as anxiety and guilt
-the defense mechanisms are unconscious
Rationalization
-reinterpretations of unacceptable behaviors in order to justify them
Repression
- distressing thoughts and feelings are compartmentalized in the unconscious
- "motivated forgetting"
Projection
- attributing your own undesirable or unacceptable thoughts, motives, or feelings to another
Displacement
- diverting one’s emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original s...