Extras To Personality

Let us see now some very famous approaches in studying personality.

The most famous one was given by Sigmund Freud. He was a physician, and developed this in his clinical course. Earlier he used hypnosis to treat his peopleand gradually he notice the patient’s wish to talk out he/she is suffering from and as a result they calm down.

He used many techniques to accomplish his task.

His visualisation repressed our mind in three well known parts:

• Conscious

• Unconscious

• Pre conscious

And we are well familiar with definition of all the three.

Freud stated that unconscious is like a tank in which our desires reside and also those which are not known to conscious mind (mainly repressed one).

He developed a therapeutic procedure to bring out these repressed unconscious material in conscious mind and as a result it can treated.

He stated that mind has a structure in which three main elements play a very vital role:

• Id: these are desires.

• Ego: a guard in mind to let or not the desires be fulfilled. It uses defence to escape anxiety as a desire not fulfilled will result in anxiety.

• Superego: it is also a guard but it is above ego and id an act as a supervisor that a desire is ethical or not on learned moral basis.

Now let us see what Freud gave to know more how personality develops.

It has five stages.

Foremost stage is.

• Oral stage: in which a baby tries to get his/her desires fulfilled through mouth.

• Anal Stage: in which child develop a mind to fulfill some of the demands of society and mostly the foremost demand is to control excretion habits.so children mainly get pleasure through anal areas of the boys.

• Phallic Stage: in which the main focus is on genitals and a child mainly four or five years old get an experience to differenate between male and female with this male children experience

1. Oedipus Complex: it is a situation in which a boy shows access amount of love for his mother .On the other hand female get through

2. Electra Complex which is exactly opposite of former situation.

• Latency Stage: now the desire in the former stage gets suppressed and child experience puberty and much of the energy gained is channelized in achievements.

• Genital Stage: Now again the problems of Phallic Stage arrives but now a fully mature person knows how to deal with opposite genders.