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Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Freud developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality development, which argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego.

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