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Describe and Evaluate Freud's Model of the Personality Freud's theory, that our experiences in early childhood, especially those with sexual significance, have a tremendous influence on our personalities as adults and are often the basis for our adult emotional problems, is the psychoanalytic personality theory. Freud thought of personality as an iceberg, with only the tip showing above water. The part of personality that we are aware of in everyday life is our conscious mind. Below the conscious mind is the preconscious mind, which contains information that we have learned but are not thinking about right now. The lowest level is the unconscious mind, where information is not readily available to us. In Freud's theory, the part of the personality that represents a person's most basic instinctual or biological drives is the id. According to Freud, psychic energy, or libido, drives the id. The id has two major instincts. The life...

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