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In general, anxiety can be defined as excessive and persistent worry about everyday situations. Anxiety can be normal in stressful situations such as public speaking or giving a test and it acts as an indicator of underlying diseases. The major symptoms of anxiety are fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating, and feeling tired. The Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud emphasized that anxiety is a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation that warns the person against impending danger. The unpleasantness is often vague and hard to pinpoint, but the anxiety itself is always felt. Sigmund Freud was the first to state that anxiety is a type of personality trait that is an innate tendency of an infant to act in any stressful situation. This anxiety an infant gets from his/her biological parents and is not learned.   Anxiety according to Freud can be seen in 3 ways- Neurotic Anxiety- It is an apprehension about an unknown danger.

 Hi guys...I'm back with my new post...hope you all are healthy and in harmony :) In this blog, I have talked about various other approaches on personality and issues in personality theories and research which will help you to get thorough about this particular topic. Happy reading!! Psycho-dynamic Theories This approach was proposed by Sigmund Freud . His Psychoanalysis became both a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy (1920, 1938, 1940/1949). Psychoanalytic theory has 3 major parts -  Structure of Personality : In which the ego, id and the super-ego are the principal parts. Ego operates according to the reality principle that it delays satisfying id motives and channels behavior into more socially acceptable outlets; Id is a sort of storehouse of biologically based urges such as urge to eat, drink and especially to be sexually stimulated and it follows the pleasure principle in which the goal is to reduce the immediate tension created by biological drives and