NameProfessorCourseDateFreud vs. Woolf: Personal DevelopmentHow is the personality formed? How is a person formed from the "impersonality" or "significantly greater impersonality" of a child? The baby is transformed gradually into an adult with a specific personality or character. Is there any regularity in this movement, or is everything entirely incidental? These questions are part of a long-standing dialog about how an individual evolves to become a specific person and what factors influence this subtle transformation. The ideas of Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf regarding the critical factors that affect individual development are analyzed below.Factors Affecting the Development of PersonalityWhat influences the development of personality? Why do different individuals develop along different lines? This is a hotly debated issue amongst scientists. Many researchers have analyzed potential factors that influence this development. Freud From the point of perspective of biology, development is understood as the development of the genetic programs of the organism, as a hereditarily programmed maturation of natural forces. Thus, the determinative factors of development are the anatomical and physiological features of the organism inherited from ancestors. A variant of this position is a perspective of individual development (ontogeny) as the redundancy of all the stages that