INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
The psychoanalytic approach to personality was created
and articulated by Sigmund freud(1856-1939)
Facts about Freud
- Freud was born in Freiburg, Moravia, in the heart of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire that sprawled across central
Europe until its breakup following World War I
- His father, a Jewish wool merchant, led his family
to Vienna when Sigmund was a young boy.
- Freud grew ip in the cosmopolitan capital and entered
the UNiversity of Vienna's Mediacal Achool at seventeen.
- Freud wanted to devote hisl ife to the study of human physiology
in its infancy
- But reluctantly, he set up practice as a physician specializing in
nervous disorders. In that role, Freud came to realize that many of his patients'
problems were psychological. That led Freud to his wide ranging theories about
the structure and function of human psyche.
Structure of Personality
Development of Personality