Factors Shaping Human Personality

ESSAY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ESSAY ............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Personality could be described as something which people thinks about. When meeting
with new people at any place it is often the personality which is focused immediately.
Personality development was major area interest for different prominent thinkers in the
psychology. Sigmund Freud considered as father of the psychiatry provided Freudian theory for
personality. The theory argued human personality is formed by the conflicts among the 3
fundamental structures of human mind which are ego, id and superego. Essay will discuss about
the factors that shapes individual personality.
ESSAY
Human personality emerges as the composite of earlier childhood experiences on the
basis of how such experiences are unconsciously or consciously processed within the human
developmental stage and also how such experiences shape personality. As per Freud most of the
human sufferings are determined during the childhood development. Emphasis was placed
mainly over five stages of the psychosexual developments. Child passing through the five stages
face unresolved conflicts between the social expectations and physical drives (Peck & Whitlow,
(2019)). During these stages of human development, experiences are refined through 3 levels of
human mind. The structures & inherent conflicts arising in minds shapes the human personality.
As per Freud personality is developed from interactions between fundamental structures
of human mind that are superego, ego and id. The conflicts between the structure and efforts for
finding balance between what each desires is determine human behave and also approach world.
Id: It is egocentric centre of human universe. The Freud believed that in this level, id constantly
fights to have the way in everything undertaken. This is concerned with instant gratification of
the basic physical urges & needs. This operates completely unconsciously (Smarandache, 2018).
For example: If the id walked past by stranger eating the ice cream, it is most likely that it may
take ice cream. It does not cares or know that it's bad to take anything which belongs to someone
other, it only cares that it wanted ice cream.
Superego: It functions at conscious level and serves as type of the screening centre about what is
going in mind. On this level parental guidance and society is weighed against the personal
pleasures and gains as directed by ids. This puts the situation ripe for the conflicts. It is
concerned with the social moral or rules which is also called as conscience or moral compass .
For example: if superego passed by same stranger then, it will not take ice cream as it knows it is
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