Essay -personalities
THEORIES OF PERSONALITY – SUMMARY&EVALUATION
Theory Presented: Freudian psychoanalytic theory of personality
Brief Statement of the core message of the theory along with key theorists:
‘Sigmund Freud was the pioneer of this theory of personality. He emphasized more on unconscious motives and childhood experiences as a path of an individual personality. According to him, there are three levels of consciousness i.e. conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious in an association to processes of mind. Unconscious represents the greatest component of mind which consist of instinct(s) that determines our conscious action, behavior and thoughts, and mostly negative or traumatic memories of childhood. Preconscious is the memories and thought(s) which are not present in out conscious thinking but can be willingly bought into awareness. Conscious is given a small section in our mind. It is awareness of current thought(s), behavior, perception(s) and sensation(s). Freud considered id, ego and superego as important aspect of personality. Id is unconscious element of personality; its operation is through principle of pleasure which seeks instant satisfaction of primal need(s), sexual desire(s) and aggressive impulse(s). Ego is operated according to principle of reality; it’s liable for the endurance and continuance of human being. It can differentiate among what’s going on in the mind and what subsist in reality as an exterior world. When the desire(s) of Id is not available in exterior world the ego tends to develop defense mechanism to delay the fulfillment. Superego is operated according to principle of idealistic and moralistic, it contains the value(s) and notion(s) of culture and family in which an individual develops. It facilitates to control impulses of Id by directing energy towards inhibiting id’s expression of sexual and aggressive instincts. Freud believed that individual are driven by two instinctual forces i.e. life and death known as libido. He developed
Theory Presented: Freudian psychoanalytic theory of personality
Brief Statement of the core message of the theory along with key theorists:
‘Sigmund Freud was the pioneer of this theory of personality. He emphasized more on unconscious motives and childhood experiences as a path of an individual personality. According to him, there are three levels of consciousness i.e. conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious in an association to processes of mind. Unconscious represents the greatest component of mind which consist of instinct(s) that determines our conscious action, behavior and thoughts, and mostly negative or traumatic memories of childhood. Preconscious is the memories and thought(s) which are not present in out conscious thinking but can be willingly bought into awareness. Conscious is given a small section in our mind. It is awareness of current thought(s), behavior, perception(s) and sensation(s). Freud considered id, ego and superego as important aspect of personality. Id is unconscious element of personality; its operation is through principle of pleasure which seeks instant satisfaction of primal need(s), sexual desire(s) and aggressive impulse(s). Ego is operated according to principle of reality; it’s liable for the endurance and continuance of human being. It can differentiate among what’s going on in the mind and what subsist in reality as an exterior world. When the desire(s) of Id is not available in exterior world the ego tends to develop defense mechanism to delay the fulfillment. Superego is operated according to principle of idealistic and moralistic, it contains the value(s) and notion(s) of culture and family in which an individual develops. It facilitates to control impulses of Id by directing energy towards inhibiting id’s expression of sexual and aggressive instincts. Freud believed that individual are driven by two instinctual forces i.e. life and death known as libido. He developed