Beh225 Appendix D

Axia College Material

Appendix D

TV Character Evaluation

Part I

Write a summary of 350-700 words identifying the contributions of Freud, Jung, and Rogers.

When thinking about the three main psychologist of all time the names Freud, Jung, and Rogers come to mind. They made a huge impact on psychology in general. Even though all three of them had many different theories they all made sense in their own way. The one thing they all agreed on was the unconscious state of personality. In this summary I will list some of the views they each had.

Sigmund Freud’s theory was based on unconsciousness with direct human behavior. He thought that humans were driven by sexual and aggressive instincts to pursue pleasure that is motivated by an unconscious structure called id. Pleasure comes in two forms, reflex and fantasy options. Frued believed that the mind was made up of three areas the id – pleasure seeking, ego – rational part of the mind, and superego – part that judges the ego good or bad.

Carl Gustav Jung based his theories on creative forces that influence the development towards wholeness. The same as Freud, he believed the brain was made up of conscious and unconscious parts. This was mainly on femininity and masculinity. He believed that analytical psychology could help release creativity and promote positive psychological development (The collected,1976). Jung brought the concept of collective unconscious to psychology.

Carl Rogers was the developer of “personality development”, this is achieved by positive goal setting. He developed this theory on humanistic perspective. Roger thought that all humans were good and thought that mental illness is a distortion in human life. He thought that people had incorporated motivation to live up to their potential. He thinks that human beings hold the potential to know what is good for them and what is not. He also studied defense mechanisms that would lead to anxiety and worked on denial.

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