# RKS: MORE ABOUT PERSONALITIES (IV): Personality Components
# RKS: MORE ABOUT PERSONALITIES (IV) PERSONALITY COMPONENTS RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 8 / Blog 1 1st October 2025 PERSONALITY MAPPING FREUDIAN THEORY Dear Reader, The two of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Sigmund Freud focused on childhood experiences and sexual development, while Carl Jung emphasized lifelong psychological growth and spirituality. Fig: Carl Jung - Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875-1961) and Sigmund Freud - Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. Freud developed a new kind of psychological treatment based on the patient talking about whatever came to mind – memories, dreams, thoughts, emotions – and then analysing that information in order to relieve the patient’s symptoms. Letting people speak freely is referred to as ‘free associat...