Freud's Theory of Personality Is Most Interested in Understanding the Interaction

question 116

Multiple Choice

Freud's theory of personality is most interested in understanding the interaction among the three structures of personality within the ________ mind.

• A)conscious
• B)preconscious
• C)split
• D)unconscious

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Definitions:

Repression

A defense mechanism where unwanted or uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or desires are unconsciously excluded from consciousness.

Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Personality Changes

Alterations in an individual's characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, potentially due to various factors like life events, trauma, or mental health conditions.

Jung

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for his concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and introversion and extraversion.