The Dissection Of The Psychical Personality

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During Freud’s time of theology his main focus was humanity. He predominately spent his time studying and observing the functioning of humans and the forces and drives of why individuals respond to things the way they do. Part of his studies also dealt with relating individual’s forces and drives to early experiences had during the growing stages of life. The term Freud decided to use to summarize his entire concept of study was Psychodynamics. The fundamental concept, Psychodynamics, is an approach that underlies human’s behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experiences. Within the Pieces of the Personality Puzzle book in the section titled: The Dissection of the Psychical Personality written by Freud, he talks …show more content…

Alder’s theory relates to Freud’s work when he expresses that people tend to gain the insight to become powerful in their adult life due to experiences and feelings felt as a child. Freud always emphasized that he felt people functioned and responded in the ways that they do because of early experiences experienced in the stages of childhood and adolescents. Although both theorists believed forces and drives presented in adulthood are stemmed from childhood experiences, they both have two different views on what really motivates humans. Alder expressed that Freud focused more on that sex was the ultimate motivator and organizer for human’s behavior. While in actuality, Alder felt that human’s ultimate motivator is the desire to relate to other people in both positive and productive …show more content…

Actualization tendency means for a person to have an idea of who they are or to have the tendency to be able to self-actualize and to achieve at the highest level they see fit. Conditions of worth emphasizes on the idea that people tend to gather particular conditions of what they feel they need to fulfill in order for people to view them as being worthy of their love or attention. The concept self plays hand in hand with the concept actualization. The concept self means to have an idea or clarification of what an individual’s identity is, and not simply what the world views them as being. A clear understanding of knowing whether a person achieved the highest level they see fit, has knowledge that the only condition of worth there is is to just be themselves, and to have a sense of identity are all key features to having a healthy

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