Crimenes

Personality

Personality is a set of characteristics or patterns that define a person, in other words, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, habits and behavior of each individual, in particular, make people different from the others. I choose this topic because the personality is who we are and what we can be. Character is an outward expression of that individuality or particular configurationthat is each personality. My topic profits all people that do not rely on, like for some people who have a double personality "double face". People should be aware that personality is conquest, becomes and is built and thus are going to feel good about them. Many people tend to compare people to snowflakes, with no two exactly alike. What does it mean to be a person? How are you unique with youpersonality? Why you behave the way you makes? are only few of the questions that personality psychologists have been trying to answer for years. But what does personality really means or how is it defined? The term personality is difficult to define because there is little common agreement on how the term should be used. In everyday speech it usually refers to one’s public image. But personalitygenerally defined as the unique organization of traits, characteristics, and modes of behavior of an individual, setting the individual apart from others and at the same time determining how others react to the individual. The mysteries of how personality develops, and if personality changes or not throughout a person’s life have addressed several theoretical frameworks that see “personality”, eachfrom different perspectives. What is the structure of personality? Personality is conscious or unconscious? Which are characteristics or functions of the id, ego and superego .Sigmund Freud, known as the founding father of psychodynamic approach, developed the psychoanalytic theory to better explain the meaning of personality. According to his theory, personality is unconscious and consists ofthree components: the id, ego and the superego. Freud believed that we were born with the id, which is a group of unconscious drives that help us satisfy our basic needs and pleasures with no consideration for reality. A baby crying at midnight because he is hungry is a good example of id. Why? Because the baby doesn’t care about the time or if his parents are sleeping, he just wants to get food.Everything else doesn’t matter for him. As the baby grows up and interacts with people and the environment, the second part of personality begins to develop. The ego is the part of personality that deals with the demands of reality. During this stage people realize that other people have needs and wishes as well and that being too selfish or too generous can harm them in the future. Freud’ssuggestion to prevent a person from being hurt was that the ego has to work to meet the id needs as well as to consider the reality demands within the moral terms established by the environment. The ego uses defense mechanisms such as: repression, displacement, and contradiction to deal with the anxiety produced by the conflicting demands of the id and the superego. Lastly, to complete personalitydevelopment, the superego had to be included. The superego, is the moral part of us, it is the judge of our behavior. Often, the superego is called conscience, because it determines the rightness or wrongness of our actions. According to Freud, the superego is developed due to the restraints placed by the environment or people around us. In order to have a healthy personality, the ego should be strong;it should be able to satisfy the id needs by taking into consideration reality and the rightness or wrongness of an action. If the id results to be strong, it would lead to a self-gratitude personality, where the person would want everything for him or her, up to the point where it will become selfishness. If the superego becomes strong, that person’s personality would be driven by morals...