Psychology › Section K · Personality › Topic K.3
The neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
Several of Freud's own followers broke with him, keeping his belief in unconscious forces and early experience but rejecting his focus on sex. Their theories put relationships, culture and lifelong growth at the centre, and some of their ideas, such as extraversion and identity, are still in everyday use.
In this topic
- Keeping some of Freud, rejecting the rest
- Adler: inferiority and striving
- Adler and birth order
- Worked example: testing birth order
- Erikson: development across the lifespan
- Jung: the collective unconscious
- Jung's types and their legacy
- Horney: culture, anxiety and coping
- Worked example: Horney's three strategies
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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