Freudian Characterology: A Personality Diagnosis with Significant Developmental Implications
Freud places so much emphasis on how important fixations are in a person’s life and how they evitably will affect the outcome of the individual’s personal development from a young age. For example, you are described as having an 'oral-passive character' if you’re dependent on others and have a major interest in drinking, smoking and eating. Which he substantiated based on the lack of allowed pleasure missed in an individual’s infancy. While if you have a tendency to bit or nibble on things such a pencils, gum or/and even people and you also have tendency to be verbally aggressive, argumentative, sarcastic ... etc. You are referred to by Freud as having an 'oral-aggressive personality’. This is as explained related to if the infant has had trouble with teething like biting the mother’s nipple. Then there is 'anal expulsive personality (or labeled as an ‘anal aggressive personality’) used to describe those who tend to be disorganized and generous to a fault and also display cruel and destructive tendencies. In addition, there is also on the opposite scale to the extreme ‘anal expulsive or anal aggressive personality’ the ‘anal retentive personality’ that describes someone who is clean, perfectionistic, dictatorial, stubborn and stingy. As Freud states is caused from parents who have use punishment as form of humiliation towards the child.
In addition he extends his theory to given 'phallic personalities' in attempt to differentiate masculine and feminine archetypes. As it goes a boy who is harshly rejected by his mother and threatening predominantly masculine father is likely to have a poor sense of self worth when it comes to their sexuality. This results in either pretending to be macho or/and major withdrawal from heterosexual relations. While for a girl if they experience a strong rejection from their father and has predominantly feminine mother she is has the tendency to have poor self image of herself or/and become ultra feminine or a typical girlie girl. Yet if a boy is favoured by an weakened father figure and not rejected by his mother they are described to become more effeminate and likely to develop more of self-ego or/and opinionated self. While if a girl is favoured by her father while the mother plays more subservient-second role she is likely to develop a more masculine self.
Quite a subjective relay of personality and individual characteristics. Yet that is the point of Freud isnt it in providing a understanding for how unstable and erratic our characters traits can be (for that was his intention wasn’t it through the use of his grand theory on psychoanalysis in his stand against the neurological approach to understanding an individual and their personality – for he understood that it is our personality and how it is developed that defines us as who we are and who we become?) Maybe this explains how confined and susceptible we are to our personality based on how it is developed especially from a young age that continues throughout our lives. Also demonstrating how such early life experiences can trigger developmental personality traits for life which will detrimentally influence how you interact with others specifically those with different personality traits resulting in much conflict and chaos. And the crucial role our parents play in the development of our personality. Foremost a lot of this psycho-analyzing of our personality by Freud and trait characterizing does realistically makes sense. Think about it do any of these prescribed personality traits seem familiar to any persons that you know or are related to, including thy self. Fundamentally forcing us to contemplate how we have become who were and what we are and will become that lies within Freud’s presentation of our personality and how it can be determined and diagnosed.
In addition he extends his theory to given 'phallic personalities' in attempt to differentiate masculine and feminine archetypes. As it goes a boy who is harshly rejected by his mother and threatening predominantly masculine father is likely to have a poor sense of self worth when it comes to their sexuality. This results in either pretending to be macho or/and major withdrawal from heterosexual relations. While for a girl if they experience a strong rejection from their father and has predominantly feminine mother she is has the tendency to have poor self image of herself or/and become ultra feminine or a typical girlie girl. Yet if a boy is favoured by an weakened father figure and not rejected by his mother they are described to become more effeminate and likely to develop more of self-ego or/and opinionated self. While if a girl is favoured by her father while the mother plays more subservient-second role she is likely to develop a more masculine self.
Quite a subjective relay of personality and individual characteristics. Yet that is the point of Freud isnt it in providing a understanding for how unstable and erratic our characters traits can be (for that was his intention wasn’t it through the use of his grand theory on psychoanalysis in his stand against the neurological approach to understanding an individual and their personality – for he understood that it is our personality and how it is developed that defines us as who we are and who we become?) Maybe this explains how confined and susceptible we are to our personality based on how it is developed especially from a young age that continues throughout our lives. Also demonstrating how such early life experiences can trigger developmental personality traits for life which will detrimentally influence how you interact with others specifically those with different personality traits resulting in much conflict and chaos. And the crucial role our parents play in the development of our personality. Foremost a lot of this psycho-analyzing of our personality by Freud and trait characterizing does realistically makes sense. Think about it do any of these prescribed personality traits seem familiar to any persons that you know or are related to, including thy self. Fundamentally forcing us to contemplate how we have become who were and what we are and will become that lies within Freud’s presentation of our personality and how it can be determined and diagnosed.
