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Personalities: where do they come from?

Where Does Personality Come From?
The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment. This includes your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Sigmund Freud called the preconscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring to mind. The largest part of the mind is the unconscious. The unconscious includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness. Many things that have their origins in the unconscious, these things we are not aware of, however they are inside our mind.
I do agree with Freud’s concepts of the conscious and unconscious. However, I feel that Freud’s ideas of sex and aggression, and pleasure and pain are untrue. This is basically that sex and pleasure are good, and aggression and pain are negative and everything a person does revolved around trying to move away from the pain/aggression to be relieved with sex/pl...

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