How does personality develop according to Sigmund Freud?
Freud’s main contribution to psychology is his collection of theories detailing human psychosexual development, which sought to explain how anxiety or “fixations” at different stages of development could lead to neuroses as an adult. Insofar as these psychosexual attributes can effect one’s personality, Freud might have said that childhood experiences are most deterministic. Freud and his theories, however, are not usually heard in discussions of personality psychology.