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Freud and it’s relationship with personality theory

firstly, I will shortly brief about what is personality?

Personality refers to the long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think,
feel, and behave in specific ways. Our personality is what makes us unique individuals. . Our identities
are thought to be long term, steady, and not effortlessly change long-term characteristics and a manner
in which he or she interacts with other individuals and the world around them. Our personalities are
thought to be long term, stable, and not easily changed. Maybe the leading known case consider
distributed by Freud was of Small Hans. Small Hans was the child of a companion and devotee of Freud,
music pundit Max Graf is father point by point his behavior in a arrangement of letters to Freud and it
was through these letters that the psychoanalyst coordinated the boy’s treatment.

Who is Sigmund Freud ? And how he is related to personality theory?

Sigmund Freud was one of the great psychological leaders and theorists in history. His theories involved
many things including psychoanalysis, dreams, emotions, and personality. Psychoanalysis included
Sigmund Freud was one the foremost powerful figures when it comes to brain research. He was the man
that established therapy as the hypothesis of identity that stresses the influence of oblivious mental
handle, the significance of sexual instinctual, and the effects of early childhood (Hockenbury 2001). He
composed around numerous of his discoveries approximately the brain but was looked at as impossible
to miss within the way he thought numerous things were related to sex. His impact on brain research
will be statue and lead to numerous other sees and hypotheses within the mental field. He was one of
the awesome mental pioneers and scholars in history. His speculations included numerous things
counting therapy, dreams, feelings, and identity. Therapy included his energetic hypothesis of identity
and the psychosexual stages of identity improvement. his dynamic theory of personality and the
psychosexual stages of personality development.

What is Freud's theory of personality?

In Freud’s conceptualization of personality, the most important motivations are both out of site
and unconscious, just like the majority of an iceberg which sits under water hidden from view. In
comparison, our consciousness, which is visible, only represents a smaller portion of who we
are, based on what we are willing to reveal to others According to Sigmund Freud, human identity is
complex and has more than a single component. In his celebrated psychoanalytic hypothesis, Freud
states that identity is composed of three components known as the id, the self image, and the superego.
These components work together to make complex human behaviors.

What are 5 main ideas of Freud's personality theory?


Freud believed that the nature of the conflicts among the id, ego, and superego change over time as a
person grows from child to adult. Specifically, he maintained that these conflicts progress through a
series of five basic stages, each with a different focus: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

The Freud theory of personality include three theories which I will tell you now:

1) Dynamic Theory of Personality

2) The Oedipus Complex

3) The Psychosexual Stages

Conclusion:

All of these areas of Freud’s theories, are intertwined and related, and each helps explain another one.
Though it not appropriate to say that Freud was the most important person in the history of psychology,
he did help so that a lot of other people could get started.

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