PersonalityTheory

A personality theory is an approach to describing and explaining the origins and development of personality, focusing on how people are similar, how they differ and why every individual is unique.
Psychodynamic theories of personality were first developed by Sigmund Freud.
He proposed that personality develops from conflicts between an individual's attempts to satisfy their basic 'instinctive' needs and the demand of the outside world, also emphasising the importance of unconscious thought processes below the level of conscious awareness, and the influence of early childhood experiences in personality development.