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Personality
A distinctive and relatively stable pattern behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual
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Trait
A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking or feeling
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Psychoanalysis
A theory of personality and a method psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud; it emphasizes unconscious motives and conflict
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Psychodynamic theories
Theory that explains behavior and personality in terms of unconscious dynamics within an individual
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id
the part of personality containing inherit psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instinct
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Libido (li-BEE-do)
In psychoanalysis the psychic energy that fuels the life or sexual instinct ofthe id
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Ego
In psychoanalysis the part of personality that represents reason, good sense and rational self control
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Superego
In psychoanalysis, that part of personality that represents conscious, morality and social standards
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Defense Mechanism
Method used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or threatning
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