Sigmund Freud

The structures of personality consist of many aspect during childhood. Cultural characteristics and mental maps comes from growth and self-fulfillment like pleasure seeking energies. Sigmund Freud’s views on human personality is agreeable, due to the preconscious thoughts an individual experiences during childhood stages, which follows throughout adulthood. Freud’s states that emotions and biological urges are often internalized creating conflict within a child. According to Freud, the thoughts, wishes feeling and memories that individuals are aware of come from the unconscious mind.  He believed that in order for individuals to not act on these ideas that powerfully influence expression, the person must become aware of these trouble some feelings. Relationships are not the only predictive aspect of development but it forms and emotional foundation into the continued development of a parent -child relationship for healthy social relationships throughout their lifespan.

Freud’s thinking and research is helpful when understanding children’s development in relation to their personality. How a child is raised and cared for can have a huge impact on their personality later on during their existence. As the brain and mind develops in children, so do their social, emotional and moral behavior. Freud speaks of children longing to be free from parents and replacing them with others of higher social standards calling it “ child’s envy”. This creates expression of ignorance and function for satisfying the (ID) gratification of physical desires right away. I observed these findings from Freud’s research throughout my son, brothers, cousins and nephews development. Freud’s findings of conflicting tendencies that children go through provides a manual for parents to take better care of their children’s need mentally and physically.