Define personality and one personality theory We as humans all the time ask ourselves “why do people act like this,” or how could they do this.” Therefore we are interested in the personality of others even if we don’t know the psychological term for it. Personality in psychology is distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting that characterize an individual’s responses towards life situations. Today there are 3 main characteristics attached to thinking, feeling and action. Feeling, thinking and actions are seen as the behavioural components of our identity, behaviour is believed to be caused primarily by internal than environmental factor and behaviour has organisation and structure. One personality theory that is within my aim to discuss is Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. Sigmund Freud became dominant in pursuing this theory after having studied Hysteria with Jean Charcot, hysteria was were physical issues occurred such as blindness without any medical explanation as to why. Therefore Freud associated hysteria occurring due to people having had experiences and feelings that they buried with repression. Freud saw unconscious processes and psychic energy (instinctual drives generate it) as responsible for the behaviour one has. Freud believed that 3 structures that interact form the core of personality, these being the Id, Ego and Superego. The id is the innermost core of personality and is present at birth it acts according to the pleasure principle which seeks immediate gratification regardless of consequences or rationality. The id is also the source of psychic energy which derives from instinctual drives. The ego, operating primarily at a conscious level, operates according to the reality principle, finding ways that the id can safely discharge its impulses. The superego is the moral arm of personality and strives to