Theories of personality

A distinctive and relatively stable pattern behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual

A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking or feeling

A theory of personality and a method psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud; it emphasizes unconscious motives and conflict

Theory that explains behavior and personality in terms of unconscious dynamics within an individual

the part of personality containing inherit psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instinct

In psychoanalysis the psychic energy that fuels the life or sexual instinct ofthe id

In psychoanalysis the part of personality that represents reason, good sense and rational self control

In psychoanalysis, that part of personality that represents conscious, morality and social standards

Method used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or threatning