Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Compare Freud's views with those of the new wave psychoanalysts
- Summarize the key findings of ego psychology, including Erikson's stages of development
- Discuss the theoretical expansions that moved away from the Freudian concept of libido
- Discuss the development of fields of study that apply psychoanalysis to social behavior
- Identify four contributions of the new wave psychoanalysts to personality psychology
- Identify ways to apply the key principles of the new wave in the psychoanalytic tradition to individual experience and behavior