Dear Mr. Freud,
I am writing this letter in the hopes that it meets you well. I, as a psychologist, looked at the differences between average minds and psychologist's minds. I concluded that the human mind thinks like that of a scientist. I also, therefore, proposed that we, as man, have our theories about the universe and use them to create hypothesis expectations. Whether our expectations are met or not leads to a change in our views. This formed the basis for my construct theory that we, as a man, are scientists.
While developing my theory, I took knowledge from your theory of psychoanalysis. Your view described that unconscious psychological conflicts shape behavior, and I took this basis to try and develop conscious ways to analyze psychological conflicts. However, my model of personal constructs may, in some ways, mirror the idea of unconsciousness. This can be seen when different individual constructs don't align, thus internally and unconsciously forming a divide between them.
The fundamental postulate of my theory is that individuals use previous experiences to help navigate and predict future events and how they may occur. Personal construct theory focuses on the mental framework individuals have and the perception of the world this creates for them. My approach, therefore, likens these frameworks to goggles used to view the world and determine how to navigate it effectively. A feature of a personal construct is that they are bipolar. This allows a way of categorizing the differences and similarities that individuals see in their environment and means that they have opposite poles identified. An example would be happy vs. sad; this could be an individual's construct. A personal construct though bipolar is not rigid, and an individual would fall along a scale ranging from happy to sad.
Constructs differ from person to person as people experience different events, which may create alternate ideologies when processing constructs. Many individuals organize their constructs into a hierarchy of their core constructs at the top and their less important ones at the bottom. The more critical constructs are knowns as the superordinate constructs, and the less essential constructs are known as the subordinate constructs. The idea of a hierarchy helps us navigate the world even better as individuals cause its a way of determining core constructs, which gives us more control over how we evaluate people and behave.
Due to my theory of fundamental postulates, I developed 11 corollaries which I believe explain the main parts of my theory. I will explain a few of these to you in depth. The first would be the Construction Corollary, which described that future events are anticipated by the individuals due to th...
