ABSTRACT
There are many theories and explanations of the self and personality but none perhaps as influential as those of Sigmund Freud. He is often dubbed ‘the father of psychoanalysis’ as he launched a new way of looking at the self and human behaviour, which proposed that behaviour could be traced back to inner motivations. Freud’s model for the self was of an inner struggle between three elements: id, ego and super-ego, a three-way opposition.
