The Neopsychoanalytic Approach: Carl Jung and Alfred Adler
The Neopsychoanalytic Approach: Carl Jung and Alfred Adler
APPROACH
Carl Jung and Alfred Adler
● Individual psychology
● Superiority complex
● Inferiority complex
● Style of life
THEORY OF PERSONALITY
CARL JUNG
THE THEORY
Animal Archetypes:
The Faithful Dog – Unquestioning Loyalty
The Enduring Horse – Never Giving Up
The Devious Cat – Self Serving
INTROVERT AND EXTROVERT
● Jung is most famous for his development of the
personality types of INTROVERT and EXTROVERT.
ALFRED ADLER
ALFRED ADLER
● Developed the approach of individual psychology
● Contributions to understanding of personality
● Notion of striving for superiority
● Role of parental influence on personality development
● Effects of birth order
THE THEORY - THE SIX TENETS OF ADLERIAN
THEORY
1. The one dynamic force behind people’s behavior is
the striving for success or superiority
2. People’s subjective perceptions shape their behavior
and personality
3. Personality is unified and self-consistent
4. The value of all human activity must be seen from the
viewpoint of social interest
5. The self consistent personality structure develops
into a person’s style of life.
6. The style of life is molded by people’s creative power.
STRIVING FOR SUCCESS AND SUPERIORITY
● Single motivating force that can subsume all other
motives
● Individual’s begin life with feelings of inferiority
● All individual actions aim to establish a sense of
superiority over life’s obstacles
● Excessive feelings of inferiority lead to inferiority complex
● Social interest combined with superiority striving
indicates mental health of a person
PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT
MIND 3 level of mind : Inferiority and superiority Theory of psychological type and the
complex unconscious
Conscious level –
thought, perception
Subconscious level-
memories, stored
knowledge
Unconscious level – fear,
shameful experience
COMPARISON
SIGMUND FREUD ALFRED ADLER CARL GUSTAV JANG
UNCONSCIOUS Unconscious filled with negative thought If a person dreams a Solve the problems
MIND lot, it means that he in the unconscious in
has many problems order to find success
and happiness in the
(All believed in conscious world
the analysis of
dreams in order
to understand
the unconscious )
COMPARISON
SIGMUND FREUD ALFRED ADLER CARL GUSTAV JANG
Psychological types
Dreams
Individuation
Word association
Symptom analysis
Dream analysis
● Early Recollection
● Dream Analysis
Carl Jung
- Accepted Jungian idea include the word association test, complexes, introversion-extroversion,self