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Personal Differences : Sigmund Freud And Hans Eysenck

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There are many psychologists that have created theories having great impacts on the field of psychology. Two examples of psychologists that developed famous theories were Sigmund Freud and Hans Eysenck. Hans Eysenck was a German born English physcologist who was known very well in Great Britain from March 4th 1917 - September 4th 1997. Eysenck was interested in human intelligence and personality traits and is known for his theories on both. He was also well known for his knowledge and understanding of phycology (McLeod, 2014).
Hans Eysenck’s most famous theory was a successful access to the public minds that that was used in a day to day life in how a human thinks of the others personality. Eysenck’s theory of 3 dimensions of personality …show more content…

They are also very are looked at as thoughtful and caring towards others (Edwards, 2017).
Sigismund Schlomo Freud, also known as Sigmund Freud, was born on May 6th, 1856 and died on September 23rd, 1939. He was from Austria and a successful neurologist. He is best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud’s argued that we have 3 levels of awareness. “Freud argued that people have three levels of awareness: conscious (what we are aware of), preconscious (what we can be aware of if we attend to is carefully) and unconscious (that about which we cannot be aware except under exceptional circumstances)” (Furnham, 2017).
Freud also stated that personality has a built-in structure. Personalities have three different stages: ID, ego, and superego. These 3 stages of personality are developed as you age throughout life. The ID stage is developed at birth and is your instinct plus desire, meaning that you will do anything to have it. The ego stage is developed in your first year of life and is the realistic part and can relate back to ID stage. The last stage, which is superego, forms between the ages of 3 and 5 and is the social aspect of things (Furnham, 2017).
There are quite a few differences between Freud and Eysenck's theories on personality. Freud’s theories are about how people see themselves and react to themselves. Eysenck's theory was on the 3 dimensions of personality, which oppose one another. Freud’s

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