personality

... the ¡°hidden¡± personalities: Freud believed that personality differences lie in variations in people¡¯s unconscious motives, in how motives are manifested, and in the ways that people defend themselves from anxiety. He proposed that the main causes of behavior lie deeply buried in the unconscious mind, which affects the individual¡¯s conscious thought and action but is not itself open to conscious inspection. The real reasons behind our everyday action are hidden in our unconscious minds, and our conscious reasons are cover-ups, plausible but false rationalizations that we believed to be true (Freud 1933/1964; as cited in Gray, 2002). Freud thinks that a person starts as an unconscious ¡°It¡±, on whose surface is the perceptual system, which is the conscious ¡°I¡± form. The ¡°It¡± is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality. It is the part of the mind where logics dose not rule, where are not governed by any awareness of time (Glover, 1988). Freud (1933/1964, as cited in Gray, 2002), concluded that much of human behavior consists of disguised manifestation of sex and aggression and that personality differences lie in the different ways that people disguise these drives. In contrast, Rogers¡¯s theory focus on the concept of the self and experiences related the self. The self represents an organized set of perception, and the experiences and perceptions can be made conscious. Rogers believed that the individual include both conscious and unconscious perceptions, but most important determinants of behavio...

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