Carolina Rabello Hessel
Núcleo de Formação em Neurociências da Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Sergio Eduardo Silva Oliveira
Departamento de Psicologia Clínica – Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, DF, Brazil
Vânia Silva Lugo, Vanessa Volkmer, Rochelle Affonso Marquetto
Núcleo de Formação em Neurociências da Escola de Medicina, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Luis Souza Motta, César Luís De Souza Brito, Marco Antônio Pacheco, Lucas Spanemberg
Hospital São Lucas da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Abstract:
Personality is a wide construct, represented in psychoanalytic theory as a dynamic integration of the totality of a person’s subjective experience and behavior patterns, including both conscious and unconscious experiences and views, behavior patterns, and mental states. The term “structure” refers to an organization of related functions or processes that is relatively stable and enduring over time; a configuration of mental functions or processes that organize the individual’s behavior and subjective experience. Most of the current categorical and dimensional classifications of personality are limited since they anchor themselves in observable behaviors (personality traits) that predominantly refer to "surface structures" of deeper underlying psychological structures. In this way, Kernberg defines the normal personality structure as a set of structural makings characterized by an integrated concept of the self and an integrated concept of significant others, an integrated identity, an integrated and mature system of internalized values, and an appropriate and satisfactory management of needs, fears, wishes, and impulses.
Keywords:psychoanalytic ,dynamic integration ,observable behaviors