by Mary Tyrer

Created on: August 20, 2010   Last Updated: September 24, 2010

A Personality is the characteristics and patterns of  feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, which make a person exceptional, one of a kind and exclusive to his or herself. Personality originates within an individual and remains consistent throughout life. Personality psychologists can interest distinctive characteristics of individuals, and similarities among people or groups. People are different from one another is evident. Every person  born is unique to his or herself. Including identical twins, they differ in fingerprints and personalities. Without a doubt, many scientific study of personalities and how individual differences have been performed. However, studying individual difference suggests studying inconsistency of how people are different, and only able to study the central tendencies of the individual. An individual can be characterized in conditions of he or she is inside. Maybe an important question of the difference is if people are more alike to his or herself over time because of situations they go through in life, and the deviation of an individual begins to change over time.

Freud’s Contribution

Of course, everyone knows when Freud did not create or invent the idea of the conscious versus the unconscious mind. The psychological community has an accountability to ensure to make others are aware of it and making the concept popular. A person is aware of the conscious mind this is the state he or she are in during the present time. What is happening at that moment, while a person is making memories, having feelings to the unconscious mind that will hold and recall them for a later time. Freud believed to work close with the conscious mind called the preconscious, what we might today call "available memory:" anything that obvious, memories a person is  not thinking of at that moment, yet a person can readily bring to mind. Today no one has a problem with this concept of the mind.The unconscious groups together everything that is not simply accessible to our consciousness, especially those things, which are so hurtful to us and we do our best to tuck them away because we do not want to deal with the pain of the memory. The unconscious also has an instinct of what a person can handle emotionally and what he or she cannot and will not allow the memory of suffering, death, or loss on a constant basis.

Freud found these theories challenging and was unsure how he if he could continue after the halfhearted welcome from The Interpretation

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