Theories of

Personality
Perspectives of Personality

Theories of Personality
Introduction to Personality
The Four Major Types of Personality Theories:
Psychodynamics
Personality Trait
Humanistic
Social-Cognitive

Personality Defined

The Four Major Types

of Personality
Theories
Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Neurologist
and Psychiatrist
The Father of
Psychoanalysis/
Psychodynamic Theory
Psychosexual Analysis

Psychoanalytic Theory
The Division of
Personality

This theory of personality

argues that the human
behavior is the result of
interactions among the 3
component of the mind.
Id
Ego
Super ego

Psychoanalytic Theory
ORAL

The Psychosexual
Stages
each stage represents the
fixation of libido (roughly
translated as sexual drives or
instincts) on a different area of
the body. As a person grows
physically certain areas of their
body become important as
sources of potential frustration
(erogenous zones), pleasure or
both.

ANAL

PHALLIC

LATENT

GENITAL

Psychoanalytic Theory
Defense Mechanism
Invented by the Ego in an
attempt to resolve the
conflict between the Id and
Superego so that
personality can operate in
healthy manner.
Automatic psychological
processes that protect the
individual from pain and
anxiety.

Psychoanalytic Theory
Defense Mechanism and its different
kinds:
Repression
Displacemen
t
Rationalizatio
n
Denial
Regression

Identification
Reaction formation
Compensation
Projection
Sublimation