Salomes, Niño T.

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Sigmund Freud

Human Personality: The adult personality emerges as a composite of early childhood

experiences, based on how these experiences are consciously and unconsciously processed
within human developmental stages, and how these experiences shape the personality. And not
every person completes the necessary tasks of every developmental stage. When they don’t, the
results can be a mental condition requiring psychoanalysis to achieve proper functioning.
Believing that most human suffering is determined during childhood development, Freud placed
emphasis on the five stages of psychosexual development. As a child passes through these stages
unresolved conflicts between physical drives and social expectation may arise. These stages are
oral, anal, phallic, latency and genitals. It is during these stages of development that the
experiences are filtered through the three levels of the human mind. It is from these structures
and the inherent conflicts that arise in the mind that personality is shaped. According to Freud
while there is interdependence among these three levels, each level also serves a purpose in
personality development. Within this theory the ability of a person to resolve internal conflicts at
specific stages of their development determines future coping and functioning ability as a fully-
mature adult. Three levels of human minds super ego, ego,
Alfred Adler

Abraham Maslow

B.F Skinner