Freuds Theory of Personality

Running head : THEORIES OF PERSONALITY

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Freud 's Theory of Personality

According to Freud some children are close to their opposite-sex parent while becoming unfriendly to the same-sex parent due to attention competition (Boeree , n .d . Boys often are worried about castration while girls aspire for a male reproductive organ . It is also possible that this fear of castration and penis envy complexes affect the development of their adolescent and even adulthood personalities (Boeree , n .d . However , these are often observed only

in weakly founded families wherein troubles commonly batter each member (Boeree , n .d When parents are not properly equipped and prepared for parental role and married life , family life becomes chaotic . As a result , children are not properly taken care and raise , and suffer the negligence and irresponsibility of parents . In child rearing , parents may warn their children such as cutting their genitals if failed to use comfort rooms urinated on bed or failed to control excretion . This may result to the development of fear on the part of the child . In addition , because of socio-cultural factors , preferences for a male child rather than female give much importance on boys . This may lead to the development of envy on the part of the female child . theless , contemporary personality theorists believed that these notions can only be true for specific cases and should not be generalized (Boeree , n .d

Another point of criticism in Freud 's theory is its emphasis on sexuality as associated...