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Short Biography of Sigmund Freud

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”  (Sigmund Freud) Childhood Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, in Moravia, on 6 th of May 1856. People from here were Czechs, but Jewish people were talking German and were mostly assimilated to the Austro-Hungarian ruling class. His father, Jacob Freud, was a textile dealer. He married for the first time when he was seventeen and had two children: Emmanuel and Philipp. After he became a widower, he remarried in 1851 or 1852 with a certain Rebecca, about whom we don't know if she died young or she was repudiated, and for the third time with a young woman of twenty, Amalia Nathansohn (1835 - 1930), whose first child will be Sigmund. He will be succeeded by Julius, who died at eighteen months, Anna, Rosa, Mitzi, Dolfi, Paula and Alexander. Sigmund Freud inherited from his father the sense of humor, the...

Personality Theories’ General Classification

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Personality theories are mainly concerned with the structure of the human mind or psyche, which subsumes explaining how individual psychological processes are organized and made coherent. As such, personality theories serve as the basis and synthesizing element for many other fields in psychology. Each of the following grand theories provides an overarching framework within which most psychological research is conducted. Each of these theories has a different point of emphasis when approaching the core psychological questions of why, how, and what. Most personality theories can be classified in terms of two broad categories, depending on their underlying assumptions about human nature. On the one hand, there are a group of theories that see human nature as fixed, unchanging, deeply perverse, and self-defeating. These theories emphasize self-understanding and resignation; in the cases of Freudian psychoanalysis and existentialism, they also reflect a distinctly tragic view of life—the s...

What is Personality?

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Similar but Different In some ways, all the human beings are quite similar. We all have the same human nature. We all share a common humanity. We all have human bodies and human minds, and we all have human thoughts and human feelings. If you have more scientifically skeptical state of mind, you mind not apprehend this descriptive statement. Just let’s take a look on some numbers: -    All humans have the same basic set of about 32,000–35,000 genes, according to the latest best estimates. -    Any two human beings will be 99.9% genetically identical. -    This fact explains the striking similarities among all people, which are the result of our common inheritance. Yet in other ways we are all completely different and unique. No two people are truly alike. No two people can ever have the same experience of life, the same perspective, the same mind. Even identical twins are unique in this respect: twin number 1 will always be twin number 1 and will never know...