Outline and evaluate one theory of personality development based on the psychodynamic approach

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Outline and evaluate one theory of personality development based on the psychodynamic approach

Personality could be something that you are born with, or it could develop in childhood and remain difficult to change thereafter, or it could be entirely learned and therefore flexible. Theorists differ in the extent to which they accept these ideas.

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory account of personality development is closely related to other aspects of his psychoanalytic theory, in particular the structure of the personality and motivan.

Freud believed that the personality comprises of three parts the id, ego and superego. The id is unconscious, the undifferentiated psychic source of instinct and passions. A young child is seen as virtually all id. If your id dominates your epinions personality, you can find yourself having a lot of frustration on your adventure. The ego is an agency of mind, which civilises the id organising translations between the id and the outside world.  Its function is to control behaviour taking into account reality as well as the instinctual impulse.  It performs the discipline activities of thinking and judging.  Ego works with the id.  Superego was initially thought to be part of the ego.   Eventually Freud saw this magnesium as being formed by the Oedipus complex into a separate function.  The intensity of those conflicts in the child and the defensive action that they precipitate creates a Superego, an area that prohibits the expression of oedipal wishes.  It is enforcing mechanism, with energy of its own and inhibits moral behaviour.  Between these magnesium there is conflict.  Id wants instant gratification; ego must satisfy reality principle and the superego.  The mind is constantly in conflict.

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Freud believed our personality is largely formed by age 5 and has to do with how children deal with there immature but powerful sexual urges. The psychosexual stages of personality development start off with the oral stage, between 0 to 1 years. This stage focuses on the mouth to give erotic stimulation. The baby gets pleasure from sucking for it’s own sake.

         Stage 2 is the anal stage this happens between 2 to 3 years. The anal cavity and sphincter muscles of the bowel are now the main source of pleasure.

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