What is personality? According to Theorist Sigmund Freud, the adult personality emerges as a composite of early childhood experiences, based on how these experiences are consciously and unconsciously processed within human developmental stages, and how these experiences shape the personality. Freud believed that personality is a result of conflicts between three different parts of the human psyche: the id, ego and superego. These are terms that you have likely heard before, as they are very well known ways to describe the driving forces that create personality.Lets consider how Freud viewed anxiety, based on how his theory of there being an id, ego, and superego and how these function together. Anxiety principally occurs due the tension or conflict between the id and superego while the ego attempts to referee the conflict. From this conflict creates anxiety and this anxiety then plays a key role in the psychosexual development of the individual. In the following site pay close attention to the explanation it provides for each of the psychosexual stages and the conflicts that Freud saw associated with each.Remember that for Freud the critical aspect of the psyche was the unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness, including drives or instincts, and things that are put there because someone can't bear to consciously be aware of. These can include, but are not limited to, unresolved issues from previous psychosexual processes.