Sigmund Freud And Freud's Theory Of Personal Development

Throughout this semester in Personality Psychology, we learned a variety of different aspects and theories of how people viewed the development. The concept of personality is referred to as the continuity and consistency of an individual. While we could speak of a dozen different personality theories, I am just going to compare and contrast between two. The two theories that I have found most interesting are the psychoanalytic theory and the humanistic theory. As we learned in class, Carl Rogers was one of the first to approach personality perception in this manner. As for the founder of psychoanalytic theory, for some of us, have always known to be Sigmund Freud. I say most of us because his name is brought up in every psychology class that I have taken. There are many parallels between these two equally important theories, and there are many differences as well. Humanistic theory, per Carver and Scheier (2012), “reflects the idea that everyone has the potential for growth and development” (p. 260). On the other hand, Freud believed that the personality was always in motion through a set of driving forces. Freud believed that an individual’s personality was several processes. One of the main themes of Freud’s research …show more content…
For instance, both theorists hold the actual individual as the weight of their studies. Both Freud and Rogers believed that the actual individual themselves were the center of personality development. On a more negative note, both of these theories were harshly criticized. The Psychoanalytic Theory was controversial from day one He did not really study very many people and his research was said to be based on case studies. The Humanistic Theory also has its critics as well. Some say that his ideas were too broad and unclear. Critics also questioned a way to test the theory. They deemed it to be unreliable because it is impossible to