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Personality: Meaning, Type and Psychoanalytic Theories
Psychology · Chapter 3 · 2. Personality
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- Allport's definition of personality; temperament, habit, values and concept of self
- Type theories: Hippocrates' four humours, Sheldon's somatotypes, Type A and Type B personality
- Freud: levels of consciousness; id, ego and superego and the principles on which they work
- Freud's psychosexual stages, libido and fixation
- Post-Freudians: Erikson's eight psychosocial stages; Karen Horney's basic anxiety and coping styles