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Defining Personality
While we often talk about personality, psychologists disagree on what exactly constitutes personality.
Personality is then broadly defined as the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that originate within the person and make a person unique. It is what makes you, you.
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Freud proposed that the human psyche comprises three separate but related parts that form a person's personality.
- The id
- The ego
- The superego
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