Topic > Personality theories - 866

Personality: are characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique compared to other individuals. It consists primarily of who you are, who you have been, and what you will become. Different theories have emerged to explain different aspects of personality. Some focus on explaining how personality develops while others focus on individual differences in personality. According to Freud, the mind is divided into the conscious mind, which is made up of all the things we are aware of, and the unconscious mind, which is made up of things we are not aware of. He then goes on to divide the human personality into: identity, needle and superego. It defines Identity as the most primitive part and is the source of all fundamental desires. It is generally unconscious and therefore serves as the main source of libidinal energy. The ego component focuses on aspects of reality and ensures identity satisfaction in a realistic, safe and socially accepted way. The superego component contains internalized behaviors and standards that we learn from our surroundings such as our parents and society. Freud identified four stages of psychosexuality: oral, anal, phallic and genital. At each stage different parts of the body are capable of producing pleasure and therefore serve as the main source of pleasure, frustration and self-expression. If a conflict remains unresolved at a particular stage, the individual may remain fixed at that particular point in development. A fixation may involve an excessive dependence or obsession with something related to that stage of development. When a person is believed to have an oral fixation it means a person who has remained stuck in the oral stage of development, his group... at the center of the article... also emphasizes the healthy human personality where he cites psychodynamic theories tend to focus on clinical case studies and therefore lack a description of a healthy personality. These humanistic theories have had a significant influence on psychology and pop culture. Many psychologists today accept the idea that when it comes to personality, a person's subjective experience carries more weight than objective reality. Today, humanistic psychologists focus on healthy people, rather than problematic ones, which has also been a particularly useful contribution. These theories of personality have been criticized and a general agreement regarding some of the qualities involving personality is that almost all theorists agree that personality should be defined as a unique and individual set of psychological characteristics that each being human possesses..