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