ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud's work produced the first properly psychodynamic study of human personality, but this was obscured by his psychobiological instinct-theory with its consequence, a misplaced emphasis on sexuality. In proportion as human beings are mature, they are capable of creating such equal and stable relationships, in which differences of type and capacity only enrich the fundamental unity and similarity of emotional attitudes. It is generally agreed that the basic forms of human relationship must be determined by psychological analysis. The immature forms of feeling and impulse which surge up from the infantile inner world, coupled with reaction-formations against them imposed by the 'super-ego', in large measure constitute the 'actual' character with which a man enters his human relationships. The instability of the childish and immature types of relationship is due, not only to their inherently unsatisfying and painful nature, but also to the developmental urge to grow up and become self-reliant and normally independent.
