The Psychodynamic Perspective

The psychodynamic perspective focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality and was studied by Sigmund Freud. Present when you were an infant, the first and most primitive part of the personality would be called the id. Id means that you did whatever you pleased whenever you wanted. For example, you cried when you wanted, you peed and pooped whenever, and you slept when you wanted. As you begin to grow, your parents began to deny your every wish. For instance, there are some things you just are not supposed to hold or touch, and you must learn to wait on certain things, like food. This stage of the psychodynamic theory is having to deal with reality, which ends up creating a new personality called the ego.