Personality Psychology (Psychological assimilation)

The ability to seek out loved ones and take them into ones own psychological world order

Process in which an individual makes an experience part of ones self.

Incorporation
Introjection
Imitation
Internalization
Idealisation
Identification

Incorporation
- least complete incorporation

Introjection
- adopt a facet of another person
e.g. identifying with aggressor. or aligning behaviour with abuser

Imitation
- unconscious process of mimicking
- common among young children. aligned with their learning

Internalization
- social transactions have been digested in thinking but not emotion
- e.g. 10 year old boys thinking 'boys don't cry'

Idealisation
- idealising an individual, and treating them as if they have no human weakness.
- Inconvenient for both parties

Identification
- taking external objects of ones psychological world and making them the basis of your new personality structure.

Examples
- Loin King (Mufasa)
- Forest Gump (Jenny)

The belief that sexual instinct is the basis of all activity

1. Sexuality: sexual feelings
2. Behaviours that belong to sexual behaviours even though they do not look like sexual behaviours. (e.g man replacing sex with compulsion to eat meat)
3. Behaviours that cannot be regarded as typical sexual behaviours even though they look sexual (man paranoid of wife infidelity => sexual intercourse 10 times a night)

- always asking for something
- demanding, impatient, envious, jealous, depressed
- success means they get what they want
- e.g. Pooh

- orderliness, cleanliness, parsimony
- rigid, striving for power/control, concerned with should's and ought's, anxiety over waste and loss of control
- e.g. rabbit

- 'I am a man'
- excessive and exhibitionist behaviour
- underlying anxiety about castration
- In men: exhibitionist, compeditive. In women: naive, seductive, exhibitionist, flirtatious
- e.g. Tigger