A Person Considering a Self-Analysis

A Person Considering a Self-Analysis,
has to do some preparation and has to get comfortable with the psychological tools needed to do so.
Will need to have a number of terms to to have an orientation of what goes on in his own Psyche and which connect to the process. The most well know of such terns are those of Freud. Who saw the mind as three parts, Ego, Id and Super-Ego, or restated in modern terms; the cognitive aware self, the largely unconscious instincts and a constrains function, partly conscious, partly unconscious. Of the instinctive Id, the sexual instinct and its modifications was emphasized and dominated his thinking about cause of neurosis. Neurosis being all most anything with an obvious medical cause, and assignable to hysteria the catch all term that evolved into neurosis and psychoneuroses and psycho-somatic and other terms that populate, the DSM IV terms of today. 
These are "Basic" things he will needed later as some points to refer to and provide an orientation about the process and some measure of his progress in his self exploration. At first it may seem there are too many things 'basic' but on a longer acquaintance it point to essentials without using a long list or everything that can be called neurotic or maladjustment making. Here you will be expected to make your own list of your trends neurotic as you uncover them.
The terms suggested may not be in every respect be technically correct, as used by professionals but should be adequate for the task of self-exploration in its practical application..
You will be expect to identify unwanted 'trends' in yourself as they show themselves in acts, thinking or feelings that are compulsive, recur with some regularity and result in misdirect efforts. failed relationships or case on to remain stuck in a fate unwanted or undesirable. FATE-ANALYSIS HAS AS IT GOAL the uncovering of neurotic trends, and THEN of the person own choice, making a proper correction and taking responsibility for his modification of that fate. This may or may not be easy or quick. It depends on a chained series of events. native strength of your drives and how they shaped your inner self and how they now position you in relation to others, your loves, your work, the social world and how you really see it and react to it. That this is more complicated and difficult than you expected is not a good reason to refuse to learn the process. The process then can become part of you, and at your command from then on as to automatically the correct path without having to be subservient to some necrotic intra-psychic force.
Neurotic means in our use. aspects of the self traceable to, or having something to do with a person's psychological life, not organic medical, but functional and compulsively disturbing adjustment. Importantly one has to find his own neurotic components. Any of which may exist on a continuum from normal to various function disturbing or severe levels. This takes time and effort.
( We leave diagnosis and terms of diagnosis to licensed professional, As here used these terms are not intended to be any kind of diagnosis.)
We seek to set you to the task of finding your own trends, looking to uncover the effects of them (far more important than giving them any kind of universal name- many names will suggest themselves, but what they mean in your life is what counts.) The 'Basic' terms are to assist you in this process.
Basic Anxiety
This is anxiety as an inner signal or alarm that automatically sets certain reactions in motions. It may work alarmingly with not every one having manifest anxiety. Those that have an actual anxiety neurosis also have basic anxiety as is if in a flood, and out of range of anything one would cease to call normal. This also is on a continuum of normal to a near total disruption of some functional aspects.
Most people healthy or neurotic are far greater under the influence of their Basic Anxiety than they are aware of. This concept is almost essential to explaining most inhibitions and/or compulsions.
o Just pointing this out to a person does not change it. Authentic depth level requires it’s origin and complexities be understood, and ultimately to over come the resistance to change that is associated with it.
Basic Hostility, is-
interwoven from infancy is an innate hostility power that begins with lashing out against privation and frustrations. At first only vaguely separated as internal or external. Later this becomes directed external and at other times against the self. Very early the child seeks to find some security and relief from the external
Basic Security/Safety /is the-
earliest coping self-preservation mechanism.

All these articulations also sets the developing infant and developing child’s early object relations recognizable later in behaviors that incline the person toward or away from certain significant persons and things that represent some connections with that person or similar persons. With various modifications these reactions are carried into later life. At the same time SAFETY AND SECURITY IS (AS emotionally EXPERIENCED BY THE CHILD.) which leaves residues, associations, or habits that are of particular importance in the development of object relation trends in adult life. These very early events also form the child’s first coping mechanisms. Much of adult problem are in this view traceable back to these early and deeply set events and are recognizable in later life by their compulsive and /or inhibitory nature. Many such formative events are too early and too vague to remember, their effects in theory fundamental to the forming the personality type and the later neurotic trends and symptoms.

There are in each person several possible personality types and multiple traits, preferences and strivings each of which may be on some theoretical continuum from normal to near neurotic or clearly neurotic. While this needs to be understood in a general sense for practicing self-analysis is not productive to enter the potential quagmire of diagnostics, endless named conditions and multiple theoretic and theoreticians that belongs to each.
Here one seeks just enough theory as to be a practical guide for the self analysis it even if it seems repetitions we will repeat depth level self-analysis.
Desired is a means to open new insight starting with your own neurotic trends, as you find them and seek to understand them and and profit from the effort.
It is not even to important how you name these trends as some part of you knows what you mean in your life. As you proceed additional material will place things in perspective and in context and as what it means in your life.
When it come to deciding to begin a systematic depth level self-analysis, Karen Horney is our primary authority although others covers the same development ground they do not offer a selection of terms simple enough as to be transferable to a ordinary person who would conduct an analysis of himself.
Those entering here that have established allegiances to-
other psychological systems may balk at this effort with some justification. They are free to use their own inventory of concepts if they chose to self-analysis. Each person can chose for himself the level of self analysis they follow. In this Fateanalysis based site seeks to provide opportunities and suggested procedures that aim to increase your insights into yourself, rather than an effort to offer a complete theory of psychology.
It is to the free association process, and then to dream analysis-
you are urged to try as as the key self-exploration method. it is of course your choice and you may be more comfortable with inventories or their tests as places to start. The Jung Word association test, the Myers/Briggs and Keirsey Temperament Sorter are on links on his site or on our links. These fall short of being an attempt at conducting a effort at a depth level self-analysis