Personality Again, two main points to make on this topic. It is something like a Kaleidoscope, especially for the Trait Approach. There is a fixed number of pieces of colored glass. That much is predictable. But the pattern of how the pieces of glass will fall depends on the circumstances.
Personality is much like that regardless of one s theory.
The second thing to remember is that, among the psychoanalytic theories there is a progression from Freud through the neo-Freudians on the question of the role of the Unconscious Self in the development and structure of personality. For Freud, the Unconscious is all-controlling. As we move through Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson, and the other representatives of the psychoanalytic approach, and therefore, as we move through the 20th century, we see the theories that follow Freud return more and more influence to the Conscious Self. This is true as well among the Behavioral theorists. But, most especially, we see the dominant role of the Conscious Self in the personality theory of Carl Rogers, the Humanistic approach.