What makes us who we are, what drives our personality? Is it driven by deeply rooted sexual desires, or is it something a little more mundane, something that, although we still have no control over, is easily studied? Every single individual has a personality; it is the quintessence of human existence. Personality guides our interactions with others, our desires – conscious and unconscious, our perceived needs and, to some extent, even our actions. Psychodynamic approaches to personality focus on the belief that we have virtually no control over our personality, that it is controlled primarily by unconscious powers. Social cognitive approaches to personality focus on the belief that we still have little or no control over our personality and that cognitive influence, i.e. thoughts, feelings, expectations and values ​​– together with the observation of the behavior of others is the main influence on personality. These two approaches to personality are radically different, yet both have their merits: they are two of many, and no one is sure which is the truth. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, was the main proponent of the psychoanalytic theory of personality. . The psychoanalytic theory of personality tells us that most human behavior is motivated by the unconscious, a part of the personality that contains memories, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, impulses and instincts of which the individual is not aware, and of which only a small part of our psychological structure actually derives from conscious experience. The problem is that our unconscious masks the meaning of the material it contains. As such, psychoanalytic personality theory is…middle of the paper…and looking at the consequences. The role of self-efficacy is also underlined by Bandura; Self-efficacy is the basis of people's confidence in their abilities. Self-efficacy can be developed by paying close attention to past successes and failures; Positive reinforcement and encouragement from others also play a role in developing self-efficacy. Social cognitive theory is unique among other theories of learned personality in that it emphasizes reciprocity between individuals and the environments in which they find themselves. Learning theorists have been accused of oversimplifying personality to the point of making it meaningless because they ignore many of the internal processes that are inherently human. These criticisms are somewhat attenuated by social cognitive approaches because they explicitly consider the role of the cognitive process.