Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment
Carolyn McDevitt
PSY/ 250
February 24, 2013
Andre Watson

Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment
The purpose of this week assignment is to focus on the psychoanalytic personality of Freud and Jung. We are focusing on how these teaching will help us to understand our own individual personality. In reading these chapters, I really get the understanding as to why we all do and act this way. I will compare and contrast the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung for their approach to personality.
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia that is located in the modern-day Czech Republic. When he was a small boy his families moved to Vienna where he grew up, studied and spend most of his career. He migrated to England in order to avoid the growing hostilities against Jews in Vienna. He died in 1939. Freud first started out in medical school but psychology was in his heart and soul. He was constantly drawing a connection between physiology and psychology. He expressed his adherence to the reductionist theories at that time to reduce all mental functions to neurology or physiological Reponses. His later theories were connected to everything in human psychology to sexual impulses and instincts. He was best known for his theory of unconscious. Freud theorized that the psychological problems many people faces as memories or experiences that have been repressed by the unconscious. Many people were not aware of such state and how to deal with it until Freud. He develops the psychoanalysis as a way to deal with unconscious. He theorized that a mixture of hypnosis and repressed memories could help the unconscious mind come to terms with their repressed memories. He was very interested with how men and women developed male and female identities. In the early stage of his theory, he learned how a boy falls in love with