fei75766_fm_i-xx.indd v  02/19/20 08:58 AMvPART I   Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1  Introduction to Personality 
Theory 2
What Is Personality? 3
What Is a Theory? 5
Theory Defined 5
Theory and Its Relatives 5
Philosophy 5
Speculation 6Hypothesis 6Taxonomy 7
Why Different Theories? 7
Perspectives in Theories of  
Personality 7
Psychodynamic Theories 8Humanistic-Existential Theories 8Dispositional Theories 8Biological-Evolutionary Theories 8Learning-(Social) Cognitive Theories 8
Theorists’ Personalities and Their Theories  
of Personality 10
What Makes a Theory Useful? 11
Generates Research 12Is Falsifiable 12
Organizes Data 13
Guides Action 13Is Internally Consistent 14Is Parsimonious 14
Dimensions for a Concept 
of Humanity 14
Research in Personality 
Theory 16PART II  Psychodynamic 
Theories 19
CHAPTER 2  Freud: Psychoanalysis 20
Overview of Psychoanalytic Theory 21
Biography of Sigmund Freud 22Levels of Mental Life 28
Unconscious 28
Preconscious 29Conscious 30
Provinces of the Mind 31
The Id 32The Ego 33The Superego 34
Dynamics of Personality 36
Drives 36
Sex 36
Aggression 37
Anxiety 38
Defense Mechanisms 39
Repression 39
Reaction Formation 40Displacement 40Fixation 41Regression 41Projection 41Introjection 42Sublimation 42
Stages of Development 43
Infantile Period 43
Oral Phase 43ContentsFinal PDF to printer
