The four temperaments are understood to be the personality types of all people. The four are important attributes to our society helping people understand themselves on a deeper level. Also for a better understanding of why they act or do things in specific ways. We were all created with different personality temperaments. This paper will focus on the four temperaments types choleric, sanguine, melancholy and phlegmatic. In the background this paper it will include and discuss who and where they originated from. Therefore, this paper will interpret a simpler way to understand the four. A significant way to understand a person in a deeper way is to know someone 's personality temperament. Aiden MCcoy states that, “The term ‘Personality’ refers
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The four temperaments choleric, melancholy, sanguine and phlegmatic are a simpler segmented way to understand personality. A general and brief description of each for better understanding; Cholerics are often found to be the ‘Alpha’ of our human species, known as being dominant leaders, and more extroverted, Melancholics are the definition of perfectionist who are introverted and sensitive, Phlegmatics are very submissive, indecisive people pleasers, who are introverted and Sanguines are extremely extroverted, and social butterflies who enjoy being center of attention.( Kant, Berkeley). Having multiple of these temperaments in your personality is not considered wrong but simply normal. Temperaments provide a solid foundation of what personalities reflect off of and how people are unique because of their personality. “Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguish one person from another and that persists over time and situations.”(How to Analyze People, chpt 3, para. 1.) Personality temperaments are perceived as internal structure of an individual, everyone 's inherited traits passed down from there parents differ. Scientists such as Sigmund Freud have researched this same topic. Sigmund Freud explains his psychoanalytic theory based of An Outline of Psychoanalysis. In which he wrote talking about the unconscious aspects of personality.(Muskingum University). The most important part of our personality is the ego and superego.(Freud 1923).The ego deals with the environment and keeps control of the personality, whereas the superego is a characteristic, which strives for perfection.
The four temperaments choleric, melancholy, sanguine and phlegmatic are a simpler segmented way to understand personality. A general and brief description of each for better understanding; Cholerics are often found to be the ‘Alpha’ of our human species, known as being dominant leaders, and more extroverted, Melancholics are the definition of perfectionist who are introverted and sensitive, Phlegmatics are very submissive, indecisive people pleasers, who are introverted and Sanguines are extremely extroverted, and social butterflies who enjoy being center of attention.( Kant, Berkeley). Having multiple of these temperaments in your personality is not considered wrong but simply normal. Temperaments provide a solid foundation of what personalities reflect off of and how people are unique because of their personality. “Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguish one person from another and that persists over time and situations.”(How to Analyze People, chpt 3, para. 1.) Personality temperaments are perceived as internal structure of an individual, everyone 's inherited traits passed down from there parents differ. Scientists such as Sigmund Freud have researched this same topic. Sigmund Freud explains his psychoanalytic theory based of An Outline of Psychoanalysis. In which he wrote talking about the unconscious aspects of personality.(Muskingum University). The most important part of our personality is the ego and superego.(Freud 1923).The ego deals with the environment and keeps control of the personality, whereas the superego is a characteristic, which strives for perfection.