PSYCHOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVE OF
MAN
 JOHARI WINDOW

▸ The Johari Window, named for its

inventors, Joseph Luft and Harry
Ingham.
▸ A four-paned “window” divides personal
awareness into four types: open, hidden,
blind and unknown.
▸ Can move as the interaction progresses.
 Open window

▸ This area represents the things that you

know about yourself, and the things that
others know about you. This includes your
behavior, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
“public” history.
▸ Examples: height, hairstyles
 BLIND AREA

▸ This area represents things about you that

you aren’t aware of, but that are known by
others
 HIDDEN AREA
▸ This area represents things that you know about
yourself, but that others don’t know.
▸ It’s that closet of feelings, insecurities, and not-so-
great experiences. It’s the private information.
▸ (e.g., belief in religion, political leanings, fears,
dreams)

UNKNOWN AREA
• represents things that are unknown to you, and are
unknown by others.
• It could be abilities and potentials that you have not
discovered about yourself yet.
 personality
Personality is the unique way in which each individual
thinks, acts, and feels throughout life.
SIGMUND FREUD’S DIVISIONS OF
PERSONALITY (PSYCHODYNAMIC
PERSPECTIVE)
SIGMUND FREUD’S DIVISIONS OF PERSONALITY
(PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE)
ID: IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT

• Most primitive part of the personality

• unconscious, pleasure-seeking, amoral part of the personality
• basic biological drives: hunger, thirst, self-preservation, and sex,

• Pleasure principle, immediate gratification,

 SIGMUND FREUD’S DIVISIONS OF PERSONALITY
(PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE)
EGO: THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

▸ decision-making component of personality

▸ reality principle, which is the need to satisfy the
demands of the id only in ways that will not lead to
negative consequences
 SIGMUND FREUD’S DIVISIONS OF PERSONALITY
(PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE)
SUPEREGO: THE MORAL WATCHDOG

▸ contains the conscience, the part of the personality that

makes people feel guilt
▸ focuses on how we ought to behave.
▸ It strives for perfection,
THE ANGEL, THE DEVIL, AND ME
 Carl jung’s analytical psychology

PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

▸ collective unconscious contains a kind of “species” or “racial”

memory, memories of ancient fears and themes that seem to occur in
many folktales and cultures.
▸ These collective, universal human memories were called
archetypes
▸ archetypes are emotionally charged images and thought forms that
have universal meaning.
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Quotations are commonly printed as a means of
inspiration and to invoke philosophical thoughts from
the reader.
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Howard gardner’s multiple intelligences theory
Howard gardner’s multiple intelligences theory
Howard gardner’s multiple intelligences theory
Freud’s defense
mechanisms
CARDO ALYANA MARCO
 REPRESSION

▸ Pushing thoughts
into our unconscious
 DENIAL

▸ Not accepting the

ego-threatening
truth.
 DISPLACEMENT

▸ Redirecting one’s
feelings toward
another person or
object.
▸ Often displaced on
less threatening
things
 PROJECTION

▸ Believing that the

feelings one has
toward someone else
are actually held by
the other person and
directed at oneself
 REACTION FORMATION

▸ Expressing the
opposite of how one
truly feels
 REGRESSION

▸ Returning to an
earlier, comforting
form of behavior
A walk in the forest
The Imagined House
Exercise