Essay About Personality        Personality And Sigmund Freud

Chapter 13: Personality
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Michael CovaIntroduction to Psychology11/12/14Chapter 13: Personality        Personality is one of the most important things that humans possess because it makes us who we are, individuals.  Our personalities make us different from everyone else.  They also help to shape everything we do in life; How we go about doing things, how we respond to specific things, how we act in certain situations are all effected by our individual and unique personalities.  Personality also has a lot to do with a person’s feelings of self-esteem and self-importance, or better known as their ego.         One of the people at the forefront of the conversation about personality and its application to our lives was Sigmund Freud, a renowned psychologist who under-went countless studies to help get us to the point in understanding that we are at now with psychology.  Through Freud’s Psychodynamic Theories we learned many things about human personalities.  In the Psychodynamic Theory, Freud talks about where our personality comes from.  He believed that our personality stems from the “conflict between impulse and restraint- between our aggressive, pleasure-seeking biological urges and our internalized social controls over these urges”(Chapter 13,