~~tyPes Of persOnaLity in The Quran~~

SOUL is distinguished man from other beings.

our Psycho-spiritual tension depending on how soul is used...

Quran has State that:::::

سُوۡرَةُ الشّمس

وَنَفۡسٍ۬ وَمَا سَوَّٮٰهَا (٧) فَأَلۡهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقۡوَٮٰهَا (٨) قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن زَكَّٮٰهَا (٩) وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَن دَسَّٮٰهَا (١٠)

 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;

 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-

Truly he succeeds that purifies it, !And he fails that corrupts it ...

these ayah is about the capability of ourselves in committing evils and being obedience....

سُوۡرَةُ النَّازعَات

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ (٣٧) وَءَاثَرَ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡيَا (٣٨) فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَحِيمَ هِىَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ (٣٩) وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفۡسَ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰ (٤٠) فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ هِىَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ (٤١)

And Half-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see―

Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,

And had preferred the life of this world,

The Abode will be Hell-Fire;

And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower Desires,

Their Abode will be the Garden.

there are three types of personality in the Quran::

1) BELIEVERS (mu'min)

2) DISBELIEVERS (kafir)

3) HYPOCRITE (munafiq)

and these personality is characterized by the differences in our

-belief

-acts of worship

-social relationship

-family relationship

-moral and behavior

-emotion

and- others.....

~seNSe PerCeptiOn and CoGniTive~

sense perception:: as we already know, we have five sense

+ sight

+ hear

+ touch

+ smell

+ taste

:::::: different people have different perception ::::::

and this perception was different to one another and it is our right to think differently.

BUT, 

we need to remember that there are also have  error in the cognition.

~~~we CANNOT rigidly following old views 

(TAQlid)

we must have deeper understanding about something before we follow make it as our habit.

for example::: looking at our friends who was hard core smoker and we  rigidly

following our friends to smoke too even we know that it has bad effects to our health and lives.

~~~ we CANNOT act based on insufficient information.

if we want to believe in something, we must have valid information and considered other information 

and make a good decision.

~~~we MUST AVOID  emotional bias

if someone did something unpleasant to us, we cannot be unjust by accused he/she without any investigation.

give their RIGHT......  

Erik Erikson

Born : 15 June 1902

Died : 12 May 1994

Our personality traits come in opposites. We think of ourselves as optimistic or pessimistic, independent or dependent, emotional or unemotional, adventurous or cautious, leader or follower, aggressive or passive. Many of these are inborn temperament traits, but other characteristics, such as feeling either competent or inferior, appear to be learned, based on the challenges and support we receive in growing up.

He divided the growth of the personality into 8 psychosocial correlates, different from Freud that focus on biological factors.

~Motive n Drive~

motive ::: Motivation is the driving force which help causes us to achieve goals...

there are three type of motive and drive in our lives...

1) PHYSIOLOGICAL DRIVES

is about our self-preservation which individuals attempt to preserve their own existence and the psychical processes that establish these behaviors. 

(fight or flight theory)

and preservation of human race that divided into

sexual drive (reproducing) and motherhood instinct (mother love) .

2) PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVES

have three branches which are

~PoSsESsIon

~AGgReSsioN

~ComPeTiTiOn

~REligiOusitY

3)UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES

Motives that the individual is unaware of, but that still influence his behavior.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Born : 26 July 1875 in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland

Died : 6 June 1961 in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland  

 He was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of a neopsychoanalytic school of psychology, which he named Analytical Psychology.

Jung emphasized the importance of balance and harmony. He propose eight psychological types, based on the interactions of the two attitudes and four functions.

Jung's Psychological Types

Extraverted Thinking	Logical, Objectives, Dogmatic
Extraverted Feeling	Emotional, Sensitive, Sociable; more typical of women than men
Extraverted Sensing	Outgoing, Pleasure-seeking, adaptable
Extraverted Intuiting	Creative, able to motivate others and to seize opportunities
Introverted Thinking	More interested in ideas than in people
Introverted Feeling	Reserved, undemonstrative, yet capable of deep emotion
Introverted Sensing	Outwardly detached, expressing themselves in aesthetic pursuits
Introverted Intuiting	More concerned with the unconscious than with everyday reality

• The Personal Unconscious ~ The reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed

• Complexes ~ A core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around common theme, such as power or status.

• The Collective Unconscious ~ the deepest level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species.

• Archetypes ~ Images of universal experiences contained in unconscious.

Jung's Developmental Stages.

Childhood	Ego development begins when the child distinguishes between self and others
Puberty to Young Adulthood	Adolescents must adapt to the growing demands of reality. The Focus is on external, on education, career, and family. The conscious is dominant.
Middle Age	A period of transition when the focus on the personality shifts from external to internal in an attempt to balance the unconscious with the conscious.

Psychoanalysis

Assalamualaikum to all. 

Okay, today's entry is about Psychoanalysis.  

In the world of Psychology we always heard about Sigmund Freud.

This is the earliest approach to study the personality. 

Since then, other philosopher come out with other theory base on Psychoanalysis theory. 

He was born on 6 May 1856 in Freigberg, Moravia now the town is known as Pribow, Czech Republic. He died on 23 September 1939 in London. 

Sigmund Freud


Levels of Personality
He divided the personality into 3 levels  Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious. The Conscious level is basically about our everyday life, something that we aware about it.
Example: When you do something that you plan to do it, so that you are conscious.
 The Preconscious level is the storehouse of memories, perceptions, and thoughts of which we are not consciously aware at the moment but that we can easily summon into consciousness.
Example: when we studying but our mind is somewhere else.
The Unconscious contains the major driving power behind all behaviors and it is the repository of forces we cannot see or control.
Example: our dream.



The Structure of Personality


it related to Level of personality. it consist of Id, Ego and Super Ego.

Id : it is a basic instinct that controlled by our pleasure Principe
Ego : it is the rational respect of personality and it controlled by reality principle.
Super Ego : it is the mediator between Id and Ego and it is about our moral aspect of personality.



   

~perSonaLity in tHe QuRan~

when we talk about personality in the Quran, 

we must go back to the concept of SOUL.. and this soul is related to the FITRAH....

+ fitrah +

fitrah is as an inborn natural predisposition which cannot change, and which exists at birth in all human beings..

and this concept is simillar with the concept of TAbula Rasa by John Locke.

means : individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception.

we as an individual have a lot of experience in our daily lives. whether it comes from our physical actions or our intellectual..

we think and  do so many  things and these things will influence our lives unconsciously.....

in Quranic perspective, there are THREE comprehensive elements in human personality

which are:

~physical

~ psychological and 

~spiritual,

and, in contrast; the western philosophy just focusing in physical and psychological only.  

THUS, 

our interaction with environment will effect our behavior and form our personality and 

it depend to us to have a good personality or not.