The Psychodynamic Theory Of Personality

The psychodynamics theory of personality comes from Sigmund Freud’s findings. His findings made him think that people had three levels of awareness; the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. The most important out of these three would be the unconscious because it contains thought, feelings, memories, and desires that influence over the day- to day aspects of people's lives without being aware of it. He believed that the personality is split into three; the ID( this is the most primitive, instinctive part our personality), the Ego( this balances out the id an superego) and the Super-ego, which is the moral part of our personality. All of these areas influence our behavior, such as the defense mechanisms of the ego, and the psychosexual stages of development. one strength of the psychodynamic theory is how they focused on the effects that childhood experiences have on the developing personality. Freud was the first psychologist to make childhood important and this led to other psychologist like Piaget developing theories on childhood. This theory …show more content…
This can lead to someone reproducing behavior through observing others and lead to positive reinforcement. The theory really is trying to say that there is a reciprocal relationship between the people and their environment, which means people are influenced by and active producers of their surroundings. Some advantages of this theory is the theory is optimistic, easy to understand, explains a good amount of behaviors, allows for cognitive process, and is easy to handle inconsistent behaviors. Some of the disadvantages of this theory is that it doesn't explain all behavior, doesn't explain behavioral differences, doesn't take account to physical and mental changes, emphasizes too much on what happens instead of what the observer does with what happens, and doesn't view what one person thinks punishment