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Comparison of two approaches to personality. Sigmund Freud founded the psychodynamic approach to personality in the late Nineteenth Century. His approach tries to explain the development of personality, and how behaviour stems from unconscious events in a persons mind. All actions are motivated according to Freud, and psychoanalysis can determine the root and purpose of the behaviour. The behavioural model can be split into two areas, condition and the social learning theory. Introduced in the early 20th Century, the approach only observed what could be seen and therefore disregards any 'unseen' causes for behaviour. Freud developed a concept for personality that arose from a conflict between the demands of the Id and Superego, and judged by the Ego. Id symbolises the pleasure principle, Superego, the values and Ego, the judge; the personality would be a result of the Ego weighing the arguments of Id and Superego. Behaviourist believed that behaviour is rooted...

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