Editing Character structure (section)

=== Freud ===
[[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s first paper on character described the anal character consisting of stubbornness, stinginess, and extreme neatness. He saw this as a reaction formation to the child's having to give up pleasure in [[anal eroticism]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dougherty |first=Nancy J. |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Matrix_and_Meaning_of_Character/HoZEAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Character+structure+Freud&pg=PA71&printsec=frontcover |title=The Matrix and Meaning of Character: An Archetypal and Developmental Approach |last2=West |first2=Jacqueline J. |date=2013-12-02 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-79694-7 |language=en}}</ref> The positive version of this character is the conscientious, inner directed obsessive. Freud also described the erotic character as both loving and dependent. And the [[narcissistic]] character as the natural leader, aggressive and independent because of not internalizing a strong [[Id, ego, and super-ego#Super-ego|super-ego]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Halley |first=Catherine |date=2019-09-21 |title=Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id |url=https://daily.jstor.org/virtual-roundtable-on-the-ego-and-the-id/ |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=JSTOR Daily |language=en-US}}</ref>