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Perspectives Defining Personality

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Describe the 8 basic perspectives used to define "personality".

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The expert describes the eight basic perspectives used to define personality. Two references are provided in order to aid in understanding.

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1. Psychoanalytic (Freudian): This is a deterministic perspective of personality. This perspective assumes that thoughts, feelings, impulses are not random but have causal relationship forming our personality. They may be unconscious connections. The mechanism to bring up these unconscious connections and aspects of our personality is how we deal with pain and pleasure. Lastly, drive is a important concept in this perspective as it is our biological roots that makes us distinct from animals and key factor in our dynamic personality development.

2. Jung-Analytical: This perspective defines our personality in our psyche which is composed of subsystems: ego, personal unconscious, non-personal unconscious. It is the development of these subsystems that form our personality. Within the subsystems are ...

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