Freud's theory of personality is significant for drawing attention to the role of unconscious influences on personality.

Unconscious Influences

Effects on behavior, thoughts, or emotions that occur without conscious awareness, originating from the unconscious mind.

Freud's Theory

A set of psychoanalytic theories developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts as drivers of human behavior, including ideas like the id, ego, and superego.