The personality concept psychologically speaking

in #philosophy8 years ago

The word personality comes from the Latin person, which originally meant the mask the actor or the dancer carried out in the performance of his role, as was the case in the ancient Greek drama and in the Italian commedia dell'arte, as well as in East Asia's pantomime. But within modern psychology, the concept of personality is defined as follows: simplified as the more or less firmly organized whole of the characteristic ways an individual mentally, emotionally and behaviorally responds and expresses itself. That is to say, the reactions are more pronounced by the individual's individuality than for the external situation given in the given case.
The term individual also comes from Latin, namely the non- word individual, which means indivisible entity, contrary to dividing= divide into smaller units. In further terms, the term "individual" means the individual, self-organism, human or person. More specifically, it is understood as the individual distinctive character of characteristics, whereby something existing appears as a particular and unique individual. The concept of individual is therefore identical to the concept of personality, understood as the individual nature of the individual being or person.
In a specific sense, the concepts of individual and personality also refer to the 'underlying' inner and outer structure, that is, to the particular way in which individuality and personality are constituted and organized. It must be noted that there are different psychological and philosophical suggestions.
However, generally speaking, the individual and personality can be said to be "divided" into a principally three-membered structure: 1. The self, the self or the subject, 2. The consciousness and the self-consciousness, and 3. The organism, body or body.

Figure 1.
Figure 1. The equilateral triangle is a comprehensive symbol of the individual's three-part being and nature, namely because the three instances 1. The realm, the consciousness and the third organism are in principle inseparably integrated in each other. Without I no consciousness, and without me and consciousness no organism and vice versa. However, it is true in practice that the organism for a time can be maintained without consciousness and I, either by virtue of the vegetative nervous system and / or by means of technical devices, such as respirator. But it does not matter by the very principle.

 The individual is also characterized by having a recognizing and acting relationship with his or her world including other individuals or persons, and that it has an individual history through which the individual has evolved or is developing into a distinctive personality with certain abilities and facilities, characteristics, attitudes and opinions about themselves and the world.
 In the foregoing, a gross rhythm of the scientific view of man is given as a total material or physical size to which spirit and soul, consciousness and the like are linked as a byproduct or so-called epiphany, which is an accompanying phenomenon without independent existence. This view of man is the monistical philosophical materialism, in principle, completely agree. Thus, when we enter the above-mentioned general personality model in the symbol of materialistic worldview and life, we see it just plain clearly illustrated in Figure 2:

Figure 2.
In Figure 2, the third triangle is seen again, but this time with the top two fields indicated by dotted line alignment. This is to be understood as a reference to the fact that the phenomena I and consciousness (or the two upper fields) are perceived as subjective epiphene phenomena , whereas the physical organism (the lower field in full line) must be perceived as the objective and thus the actual basis .