Profile of the Self

Sigmund Freud provides a concept of how a person’s personality is structured and to have a healthy personality requires a balance in the interaction between the id, ego, and superego. Bandura’s theory of observational learning plays a vital role in the persons conditioning process. By understanding the basis of observational learning that includes modeling, disinhibition, and trolling, one can recognize the different types of reinforcements that contribute to how one learns and then behaves in situations throughout their life. The experience and knowledge of self-discovery comes gradually without an instantaneous impact. Although, moments of true realization can give one a release from past insecurities, doubt, and shame just to name a few. Such realizations can change how one views or feels about their past, which includes their choices, successes, failures, and the different relationships they have had from birth to the present. In conclusion, one should invest in getting to know their own personality to educate themselves and receive the benefits of a healthy state of mental

A popular association with choices is the angel and devil sitting on your shoulder. The devil whispers do whatever you want, who cares if it’s wrong; while the angel says “You know that you should do the right thing.” Then your mind is left spinning on how to make the choice and you wonder what kind of thought goes into making the choice. What is the psychology of making a decision? Sigmund Freud dedicated his life to studying the mind and its endless features and he was able to test many theories and contribute vast amounts of knowledge to modern day psychology. He devised theories of how the mind is split into different parts and what each part contributes to the whole function. Sigmund Freud was able carefully study the unconscious mind, the psyche and dream analysis though theories of the connections that the mind makes when exposed to life events.

Self-concept is defined as the knowledge, a multi-dimensional construct, of an individu-al’s perception one may have about his or herself such as personality traits, physical characteris-tics, abilities, values, goals, and roles. During my infancy stage, I started to organize and acquire information, which helped me to recognize the perception of self in the social world. As a child, I learned how to interact in the social world from the environment and my learning experiences. The self-concept is an internal model, which refers to my physical characteristics, hobbies, occu-pation, abilities, skills, personality, etc. My self-concepts refer to my personal social identity. A significant factor in self-concept is an individual’s self-perceptions and how he or she interacts in the social world is.

Self-concept is something that we were all born with at birth. We learn self-concept when we were taught at a young age to nurture. When we were younger we learned this while playing with our baby dolls as little girls. Our friends, family, and our parents help boost our self-concept every day, as long as it is being reinforced by people, our faith, as well as events that we may attend. Self-Concept is formed by our actions and by our reactions to the world around us in everyday life.

The Two Sides of the “Self” Is the “self” affected by the outside world? Whitman seems to think so, but Descartes claims that we cannot trust the outside world because we are being deceived by an evil demon. Both philosopher’s obviously differ on what we can and cannot consider to be true. Descartes and Whitman had very different ideas of the self and what could affect the self. While Whitman believed that we could achieve knowledge of the self through the senses, Descartes argued that we should throw the senses to the side and only believe in what we could distinctly perceive and truly understand.

Personal Analysis and Theory Assessment Introduction One’s personality and mental makeup is a result of a number of internal and external influences. Even if some traits maybe similar, no two human beings can think or behave in exactly the same way, simply because no two human beings, even if they are close siblings, have the same experiences in the past. A personality is as unique as finger prints and tongue prints. I will discuss my personality with references to various Theories of Personality which attempt to explain why people act, think, and feel emotions the way they do. Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud, a famous theorist, propagated the idea of the conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious mind (Boeree). The conscious mind is like the Random Access Memory of a computer system. Feelings, thoughts, emotions, memories, fantasies; in short, everything that a person is aware of is loaded in the conscious mind. Thoughts that are not currently being worked on, but can be quickly readied for processing are in the preconscious mind. Thoughts and feelings that a person is not aware of along with traumatic or disturbing emotions which a person would rather suppress are stored in the unconscious mind. According to Freud, a very important object in the world is an organism and a very important part of the organism is the id, which is the motivational force or drive (Boeree) for meeting the wishes in the organism as quickly as possible (pleasure principle). The part of id that a person is consciously aware of is the ego which is constantly is search of objects to satisfy the id. The ego is more realistic and reasonable than the id and satisfies needs to of the organism as soon as a suitable object is found (reality principle). The ego, in i...

In the following, I am going to talk about the self-concept. Self-concept suggested that there are different kinds of self, such as actual self, ideal self, physical self, public self and spiritual self (Buss, 2001).

Over the years so many theories of personality have been discovered by a variety of well-known psychologist such as Eric Erickson, Carl Jung, Briggs- Myers, Sigmund Freud, and James Marcia just to name a few. Even though there are a multitude of theories that can be applied to personality, for the sake of this paper, I will focus, analyzed and applied Erickson and Marcia’s theories towards myself. By using myself I hope to gain an understanding on how those theories work and apply to the human race.

The twentieth century philosopher, Sigmund Freud, conceptualized innumerable theories of thought. One of his most important ideas was a human’s personality. He believed that a persons psyche has more than just one facet. Freud concluded that one’s psyche has three aspects: the id, ego and superego. Each of these aspects develop at different times in one’s life. Freud believes in the mentally healthy person, the components form a unified system and work in harmony, enabling the individual to function efficiently in his or her environment (Pojman). Although each part of the personality consist of unique characteristics, they interact to form a whole. The id, ego and superego directly correlate to one’s behavior.

Sense of self entails an individual reflecting on himself or herself - traits, beliefs, and purpose within the world. To develop a strong self of self, an individual must know his or her own goals, values and ideals. While this can entail each aspect of an individual’s life, my current sense of self stems from my position as a nursing student. As a nursing student, my sense of self stems directly from my theory courses and my hands-on experiences, both simulated and clinical. Currently, I feel like a gratified (Almost graduated) nursing student who is eager to get into the clinical field of practicing nursing, by providing hands on care to patients and their support systems. While I do not feel like I could go out and practice on my own quite yet, this nursing