Psychodynamic psychology is the approach that emphasizes the study of the psychological forces that are the root of human behavior, feelings, emotions, and how they might relate to early childhood experiences. Founder of psychoanalysis and neurologist Sigmund Freud developed a theory of personality that made the assumption that human motivation was driven by conflicts between instinctual, mostly unconscious, psychological forces. He called these forces the id, ego and superego. The 'id' contains two main components: eros, which is the life instinct, that involves self-preservation and sex which is fuelled by the libido energy force. In addition with thanatos, which is the death instinct, whose energies are channeled away from ourselves and
