What Is Muhammad Ali's Topographic Model Theory Of Personality

Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. a professional boxer, idealist, social activist, and philanthropist born January 17 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Cassius Clay Sr. and Odessa middle class citizens gave birth to giant who would impact the world greatly. The Clays were not wealthy but were not living in poverty. Muhammad Ali would go on to embody the soul of an American during the late twentieth centuries. As an African American boxer, world figure, minister, humanitarian, and the spokesman he would use his fame for various reasons. Muhammad Ali would go on to battle American racial and political issues. Fighting for those less fortunate and helping inspire people of all ages to be strong during a crucial point in American history during 1960s and 1970s. Growing up in Kentucky Muhammad Ali had similar life experiences such as segregation. The Jim Crow laws were still in effect separating facilities such as swimming pools, schools, restrooms and restaurants for black people and white people. This separation had made life difficult for many African Americans. Ali development and growth as an individual started around the age of 12. …show more content…
Sigmund Freud propose that humans have three levels of awareness called conscious, preconscious and unconscious. At the conscious level of awareness all the information an individual pays attention during any given time. Preconscious holds information outside of an individual’s attention span but is available when needed. Unconscious mind is emerge with feelings, memories, thoughts and desires in which people are completely unware, influencing all aspect of people’s daily lives. “Unconscious processes, while barred from consciousness, are not inert. Because they are not consciously acknowledged, they may leak into consciousness and affect behavior in unexpected and often unwelcome ways, as in slips of the tongue” (Kowalski & Westen,