Sigmund Freud's Personality Theory

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The initial of contemporary personality theories is known as the psychoanalytic theory developed by Sigmund Freud. Psychology wasn’t the only academic subject influenced by Freud’s theory; it also influenced literature, art, philosophy, cultural studies, film concepts, etc.

To comprehend Freud’s theory, it is necessary to begin with the understanding of the unconscious. Freud supposed that most human actions are caused by thoughts, desires and ideas that are in a person’s brain but isn’t necessarily reachable by the conscious part of the mind. The reservoir of these thoughts of which we are unaware is known as the unconscious or subconscious. The psychoanalytic theory proposes that personality features are generally a reflection of the matters of the unconscious part of the mind. Certain ideas and thoughts that are threatening to us are repressed; pushed out of awareness into the unconscious, because awareness of these intimidations triggers anxiety. Although repression retains undesirable information in the unconscious, according to Freud, these thoughts can escape out of the unconscious and express themselves in a disguised, less damaging forms within behavior, thoughts and dreams.

The human mind can be envisioned as having three levels; the conscious level, which we are alert of and where all of our thought processes function. Anything that is thought, perceived or comprehended exists in the conscious part of the mind. The pre-conscious level is where memories and

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