Personality was the founder of Psychoanalytic Approach Originates from the Latin persona, which means mask. Significantly, in was a neurologist born in Austria the theatre of the ancient Latin- during the Victorian era. speaking world, the mask was not used as a plot device to disguise the According to Freud (1917), personality identity of a character, but rather was has three structures: the id, the ego, a convention employed to represent or and the superego. typify that character. - id, person's source of psychic energy
, is unconscious, has no contact
Can be defined as a dynamic and with reality with reality, and is child- organized set of characteristics like in its demands for gratification, possessed by a person that uniquely always seeking pleasure and avoiding influences his or her cognitions, pain. motivations, and behaviors in various - ego, is governed by reality principle. situations (Ryckman, 2004). -superego, addresses the moral consideration of individual actions. The different nature of Personality: Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanism 1. One strategy (used in ordinary language) - Defense Mechanism, refer to 2. Second strategy (used in concept involves people's unconscious ways of dealing dissecting the parts of the word, its root and with conflict. its affixes. - Repression, works to push 3. Third strategy (the etymological as well as unacceptable impulses the sociocultural meaning)
- Dr. Virgilio G. Enriquez, recognized as the
“father of Sikolohiyang Pilipino,” used this approach when opted for the term Pagkiatao(rather than the more static concept of katauhan or the assimilated concept of personalidad)in referring to the meaning personality in the Philippine context.
The Three Major Forces in the Study of
Personality:
Psychoanalytic Approach
Theories explain human behavior in
terms of the interaction of various components of personality.