Identity Lecture Five

The Goodwill Show

In morden psychology there has been a rise in the study of psychoanalysis. I've personally taken sometime to read articles about this topic and inform myself about Freuds, Psychoanalytic Theory. This is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis. We often hear people, when casually taking to one another use phrases, like this is not my personality or that something isn't reflecting of their personality. I was curious to find out if people knew about their personality. Now let us look at the psychological definition of the word personality; it is "The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual. Its the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of the individual". With this description I wondered how many people are actually conscious of their personality.