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The human personality has been a troubled area that the human being has been curious to understand. It is a concern that even I did not escape from which gave me the drive to solve this complex issue that the intelligent have tried to understand. How human personalities made and what influences the high diversity that we now know as human character? Can the character of a human being be predicted?
Theorizing was influenced by such questions to the study of the human brain and its psyche. What is personality? How can the personality be influenced? When is a person’s character formed? How can I begin to study personality? My study is based on the observation of a young boy from childhood to adulthood. During the many reading and researching sessions that I immersed myself into, I developed questions regarding how the personality is reached. I developed a basis that influences each and every individual from the point of birth. It is then that I formulated the three parts that influence the personality of a human.
The three parts are the product of a constant urge in humans that I will call libido. Libido is the first syntax that is developed for the theory. Libido is the constant urge in the human to satisfy an innate pleasure in all humans. The pleasure brings a feeling of satisfaction to the person and therefore there is an urge to seek more satisfaction. The three parts that I developed include the conscious mind, the preconscious and the unconscious mind.
The conscious mind influences the decisions that are made when one is aware of the situation and thinks rationally. The preconscious mind is a part of the memory that can be triggered when required so that the decisions can be made. It can be a record of past experiences that have been installed in the mind that influence the decision an individual may carry out. Finally the unconscious mind is a holding area of feelings, thoughts, urges and memories. The memories are either good or bad and can trigger a person’s reactions to something. The interaction of the three parts are what bring about the constant conflict or tension in the mind of a person. Such conflicts are what influences the decisions of an individual and therefore lead to different types of people depending on how they react to a situation.
I believe that personality is determined by the experiences of a person in their childhood and adolescent years. It is this assumption that leads to my theory of the psychosexual development to explain personalities. Every individual is subject to five stages of development. The conflict resolution at each stage is what influences the type of person. The successful completion of a stage can trigger the beginning of the next stage, or the age of the person. Therefore, one can proceed to the next stage without completing the previous stage. Some people remain fixated upon other stages. I discovered that those few factors can make a person become different from the next immediate person because of a fixation of one process in the stages or being stuck in one stage.
I will the call the first stage oral. It occurs from birth up to the age of eighteen months. It is a stage where the satisfaction is driven and achieved through oral satisfaction. Feeding, suckling, thumb sucking and babbling are examples of activities that can offer gratification. Too much gratification or too little can influence personality where a person can become fixated on activities that are related to this stage. Such activities can be reflected through gluttony, smoking, alcoholism or nail biting. Other reactions include aggression and constant pessimism towards others.
The second stage is called the anal. Experience by children between eighteen months and three years. The child is focused on getting satisfaction from excretion. Observation proves that the child is excited by either retaining the feces or eliminating them. The behavior product can be an extreme obsession with cleanliness or being a messy person on the other hand.
The phallic stage is the third one and it is experienced by children between the ages of three and six. The child becomes obsessed with the genital area. As the child realizes they have no vagina, they develop a tendency to love their mother and view the father as a competition. For boys a situation I will term Oedipus complex occurs where the boy is in conflict because the father gets all the attention from the mother.The character of a young boy at this stage is developed by the fear of the father such that the boy develops masculine characteristics. For girls, a similar situation will be called Electra complex where the kid resents the mother and develops admiration for the father.
The penultimate stage is known as latency and is experienced by those children between the ages of six and twelve. The sexual urges remain passive at this stage and the child mostly plays with the same sex peers.
The final stage is referred to as genital. The stage is experienced by those above twelve years of age. The sexual drive is awakened at this stage and the satisfaction is sought for the genitals. Gratification comes from interactions with the opposite sex at all times.
Testing of the theory has led to a number of modifications with time. For example during the phallic stage I found it essential to include the reactions that girls have at this age because further research required a gender sensitive report. Girls were found to be fond of the father but later appreciated the mother and thus developed signs of femininity through more interaction with the mother. Another modification in the stage is that both the Oedipus and Electra complexes are as a result of the interaction with the mother and not dependent on the father.
Evaluation of the theory makes enough support for the types of defense mechanisms that people have in general towards external stimuli. Defense mechanisms are used to react towards the conflict that an individual may experience. Such mechanisms include displacement, rationalization, regression, depression, reaction formation, sublimation and denial. When the stimuli is too much a person can develop mental illness or end up killing themselves because they may not handle the pressure or stress they face. Therefore, defense mechanisms offer protection to the sound health of the mind. Illnesses such as depression, double personality and obsessions are explained through the theory. Another use of the theory can be to study the motivation of people. It can be useful especially for people in an organizational setting when recruiting leaders.
References
Heffner, C. (2011). Freud’s stages of psychosexual development.AllPsych Online. Retrieved from http://allpsych.com/psychology101/sexual_development.html.
Shaffer, D. R., &Kipp, K. (2010). Developmental psychology: Childhood and adolescence. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Sing, P. (2012). Freud’s model of psychosexual development including oral, anal, phallic. Place of publication not identified: Webster’S Digital Service.
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