Friday, November 19, 2010

the story of Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney

 Alright well if tried to do the best i can to understand these three people in the past of  psychology so here goes. Carl Jung came up with the theory that we all have a collective unconscious and that it is a kind of understanding that we are all born with. Even though we may never consciously be aware of it, this collective unconscious shows almost all of our experiences and behaviors including the emotional ones that we may have not of thought of about before. Some influences can be seen much easier than others, such as love at first sight. Jung also came up with the idea of archetypes. these are contents of the collective unconscious that is an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way. These archetypes are images that we see or think about like religion, happily ever after, and the idea of superheros. These are all sort of personalities that have been known to be more of a generic personality that have been accepted in culture throughout time. This has been seen in culture almost since the beginning of man kind.

Alfred Adler's inferiority complex is the feeling of the lack of worthiness. Adler explained that We all wish to overcome difficulties. Adler explained that one given person cannot be superior until they have gotten over most if not all of the difficulties going on in their lives.  The superiority complex explained that We all strive to reach a goal by the way of which we shall feel strong, superior, and complete. He used  the word superiority complex which is developed when a person tries to take over his or her inferiority complex. And every person had a picture in their head of their perfect self. Adler explained that every person wants to be a leader, and once they have gotten over their inferiority complex they can strive to be a leader in their part of society.

Karen Horney seemed to like to be the type of person that liked to stand out. She often argued that what Sigmund Freud had to say was extremely incorrect, and he felt that Sigmund Freud was extremely irrational. She argued that not all women had this so called "penis envy" and that men to in fact have the same desire for the female genitals. she stated that men saying that women have penis envy is just showing mans power status in the world today.

Sigmund freud??

Ok so lately we have been talking about the "famous" sigmund freud in class. personally I dont buy much of anything he has to say about psychology. I think that overall he was more of a crazzy sex addict then he was a psychologist. Sigmund thinks that all human life revolves around sexual desires that revolve around human beings!? that is probably one of the crazziest statements that i have ever heard in my entire life. Today most of freuds ideas have been rejected except for his defense mechanisms, so i dont really see why we talked about him in class. I mean ya the guy did have his own "interresting" theories but for the most part they werent excepted into society at all. Below i have posted some picture of the crazzy guy just so everyone could see what he really looks like.