From Freud to Anna Freud, Jung, Adler and Karen Horney

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From Freud to Anna Freud, Jung, Adler and Karen
Horney

• Roots, trunk, and branches

Lucie Johnson, 11-22-05
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Freud and Anna, his Daughter (1895-1982)

• Anna brought Freudian concepts to her work with
  children.
• Used play materials, drawings, home observation
• Stressed the concept of therapeutic alliance
• Expanded the role of the Ego and Ego defense
  mechanisms

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Melanie Klein (1882-1960)

• Melanie Klein stresses the pre-oedipal period of
  the child's development, and it intense feelings.
• She and Anna Freud had a theoretical dispute
  which Anna won in the US, and Melanie won in
  Europe
• Melanie Klein is the founder of the "objects
  relation" theory which has become much more
  important even in the US these days.

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Freud and Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

• Adler main motive is escape from death
• This results in a quest for power
• Notion of inferiority and superiority complexes.
• Dreams etc are a quest for mastery
• Notion of social interest

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Alfred Adler and Everyday Life

• The notion of Style of Life
• The creative power of the self
• Birth order effects

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Freud and Carl Jung (1875-1961)

• Jung extends the notion of unconscious to the
  concept of COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS (in addition to
  the Freudian personal unconscious).
• There is an archetypal level in the collective
  unconscious

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Examples of Archetypes

• Persona that which we appear to be
• Anima the feminine in man
• Animus the masculine in woman
• Shadow the darker self
• The Self that which integrates the other
  archetypes

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Jung and development

• As an individual matures, the various archetypal
  aspects of his/her person come out and become
  more balanced.
• Not everyone is meant to be like everyone else.
  Personality types (currently reflected in the
  Myers-Briggs test) E vs I, S vs N, T vs F, P vs J

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Freud and Karen Horney (1885-1952)

• Does believe in unconscious motives
• Does not believe in biological determinism
• Does not accept the Oedipal conflict as
  foundational, nor the id-ego-superego
• Womb envy vs penis envy

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Understanding Neuroses

• Basic anxiety (hence hostility and fear)
• 3 basic ways to cope
• Moving toward others compliance, seeking
  approval
• Moving away independence, withdrawal
• Moving against aggression, power, achievement
• The idealized self

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