Since, Charles Darwin’s ideas of evolution have been around many have applied those thoughts to human behavior throughout time. For example, some believe that our economic system brings fourth “ competitiveness” and that some people are born criminals, and that women are more emotional than men (Wilken Lanoil, 1996). Human nature is applied to personality as to say that one my be born with such a trait, however, it is actually a trait that evolves trough learning pattern

How the elements of personality came about have a lot to do with one man by the name of Sigmund Freud. Freud thought biology played an important role in the development of personality. Freud claimed that people have a basic need for bonding and people have an aggressive drive or a death instinct. Freud claimed that these two opposing forces created what he calls human drama. Freud claimed that the personality can be divided into three categories the id which is the basic drive, the ego which balances innate pleasure seeking drives with the demands that society places on individuals, and finally the super ego which is the presence of culture. Freud’ work provided a foundation of how an individuals personality effects one’s life and also society’s efforts to control human drive. (Human Development, 1998, p.176)

Human beings are subject to both biological and social influence. We have what one inherits, but one also has different choices that can be made. We are given a starting foundation, but one do with it is primarily up to that individual. Peter Berger puts it as this “We are like puppets, but we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved.” When individuals realize that they have the power to settle or t change they can then develop their own ideas on the subject matter and become freer.

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