psychoanalytic approaches to personality

The area of psychology with perhaps the most controversial history, due to it’s complete

lacking of empirical evidence, psychoanalysis, has it’s origins in the teachings of Sigmund

Freud. Psychoanalysis is a form of therapy developed by Freud in the early 1900’s,

involving intense examinations into one’s childhood, thought to be the origins of most

psychopathology which surfaced during adulthood. Ideas about the subconscious, which

saw the human mind as being in continuous internal conflict with itself, and theories that all

actions are symbolic, for “there are no accidents”, were also major themes of the

psychoanalytic approach. Successful therapy was a long-term and costly process, which

most people during that time, with the exception of the wealthy, could not afford.

Sigmund Freud’s main contribution to this new field of studying personality was in the

area of the understanding the unconscious, an aspect of the mind to which, he claimed, we

did not have ready access to, but was the source of our actions and behavior. Freud believed

the human mind was divided into three parts: the id, ego, and super-ego. The id is man’s

(generic meaning, referring to both se

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