The Self and Attitude Structure



The Self and Attitude Structure

The theory of personality is a set of hypotheses or assumptions about the nature and mechanisms of the personality development. The theory of personality does not explain human behavior, but also predicts human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, there is a breakthrough in research on the evolving field of psychological science (Freud, 1961). Sigmund Freud formulated his revolutionary theory, which was a task to explain pathological behaviors in patients. On this basis, Freud developed a form of psychotherapy treatment for emotional disturbances, which is called Freudian psychoanalysis. At the core of psychoanalysis lay desire to know the psychic structure of man, the desire to explore the development and functioning of his personality, as well as cultural and social phenomena are the product of his mind and having an influence on it. Freud came out with the assumption that the ancestral human development is essential for individual development and its consequent constant problem of choosing between impulses and behavior, which is imposed by culture (Freud, 1961).

Psychoanalysis was to contribute to a better knowledge and understanding of human behavior, how strange sometimes. Freud believed that human behavior guided by the sexual instincts that dominate the behavior in the first few years of life. It's the parents and the public learn how to control them. However, he further looked into the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness is the conflict and censorship, and their sources should be sought in the early stages of the development of infantile sexuality in spite of the fact that the development and shaping of the individual as a social being is also influenced by social mores.

To be effective citizens, and, civil servants, people need to become mature, responsible adults. Within the perspective of depth psychology, the development of ...