... the personality theories. Freud believed that instinctual biological urges, primarily sexual and aggressive are the forces that motivate every aspect of an individual's behaviour. The structure of personality according to Freud arises from the three interacting areas of the mind, which often referred to as psychodynamic because it portrays the ego as keeping a dynamic (ever changing) balance between the three sets of demands. Freud termed the id, ego, and super ego (the tripartite mind) Freudian theory says that the id refers to all that is innate within the child, including the instinctual drives of sex and aggression. Linking with this is Freuds view that all behaviour stems from two opposing groups of instincts, which are contained within the id. They are 'Eros' the life instinct which enhances life and growth and 'Thanatos' the death instinct forces of destruction of self and others. The energy, which drives these two opposite ...

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