The psychoanalytic theory was first introduced by Sigmund Freud.

The most famous out of all the personality theories was his approach,
which is psychoanalysis. It elaborates on Freud’s understanding of the structure of the mind, and how the unconscious and dreams have a
major importance in terms of defining an individual’s behavior. Freud believed that the mind is composed of 3 structures, the Id, the Ego
and the Superego. The Id (Das Es) is the pleasure principle, as what the name says, it is the part of the unconscious wherein it only seeks
pleasure, irrational, emotional and its drive is the libido, or sexual energy. The Id has no moral present, it is illogical and cannot make
judgement if something is good or bad. The Ego (Das-Ich) is what we call the reality principle, for the reason that this is the only part of
the mind that’s in touch with reality. These principal balances both the id and the superego’s unrealistically demand, and becomes the
decision-maker, or the mediator. However, if the ego is unsuccessful in giving the claims of id ang the demands of superego, it becomes
anxious. It then uses defense mechanisms to defend itself from the growing anxiety. The one is the Superego (Das Uber-Ich), or the moral
principle. The superego or above-I, represents the moral and ideal aspects of a person. Just like the Id, it has no touch in the real world
and only relies to the ego, and it suppresses Id’s sexual and aggressive impulses by telling the ego to do so.
When the ego both fights the id and superego, their conflicts can create anxiety that the ego fights and protects itself with different
defense mechanisms. These defense mechanisms that have been identified in the Freudian Psychology. Repression, where the ego
forces the threatening thoughts or feelings into unconscious. Reaction Formation, in which the repressed thought became
conscious and is then disguised as the opposite of what it really is. Displacement, it transfers or displaces the disturbing thought to
an object. Fixation, the person that stays on that cannot progress and their development and rather stay on their comfortable
psychosexual stage. Regression, going back or revert to earlier stage where they feel safer, they are mostly the same with fixation,
the difference is that regression is temporary and fixation is not. Projection, attributing their unwanted traits to others, and lastly
Sublimation, it is when the repression of the impulses are directed to cultural or social aim.

Freud also theorized that infancy and early childhood have psychosexual stages of development. For him, the first 4 or 5 years of life are
the infantile stage, which is the most crucial stage of formation of personality. The infantile stage is divided into three phases, the Oral
Phase in which he believed that mouth is the first organ to provide an infant pleasure. The Anal Phase, when children take an interest
from erotic pleasure of defecating, and Phallic Phase, the time where the genital area becomes the erogenous zone. In this phase, Oedipus
Complex happens, Freud believed that all young boys have fantasies of sexual interactions with their mother, and Castration Anxiety, the
fear of losing the penis. Oedipus Complex also happens to young girls, in which what we call Electra Complex. Young girls want to replace
their mother and desires their father, he also said that young girls develop an envy to have a penis hence they experience penis envy.
Latency (6 to 7), in which little to no sexual growth happens, genital stage that happens in puberty and lastly maturity.