... between the psychoanalytic and humanistic theories on personality. The psychoanalytic approach (taken by Sigmund Freud) explains personality by breaking it down into 3 separate parts: the id, the ego and the superego. The id consists of all the inherited parts of personality. The id is said to operate on a "pleasure principal", meaning that it seeks to maximize personal pleasure and avoid pain ... minds desire, but controls the id's want by obeying the "reality principle", and restrains the id from acting out it's desire until it is the appropriate time and place. The superego is somewh...

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