Psychology

Trait Descriptive adjectives are words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are characteristic of a person and perhaps enduring over time (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2008). Andrew Carnegies biographic analysis exhibits the following trait  specific adjectives i.e. Andrew Carnegie was philanthropic, ambitious, hardworking, adventurous, aggressive, radical, witty, opinionated and realistic. The poverty background streamlined Carnegies ambition for riches that ultimately marked his path in life. However, a belief in political egalitarianism was another ambition he inherited from his family. Andrews father, his grandfather Tom Morrison and his Uncle Tom Jr. were all Scottish radicals who fought to do away with inherited privilege and to bring about the rights of common workers. Carnegies home town (Dunfermline) was a center of the linen industry, and Andrews father was a weaver, a profession the young Carnegie was expected to follow, but the industrial revolution that would later make Carnegie the richest man in the world, destroyed the weavers craft, influencing his aggressiveness to help the family as he writes I began to learn what poverty meant, Andrew would later write. It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work. And then and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man, (Carnegie, 1920).

The situational examples that demonstrated Carnegies traits included the fact that Carnegie was unusual among the industrial captains of his day because he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs, thereby showing an industrialist who was opinionated and radical even after the Homestead Strike of 1892, Carnegies steel juggernaut was unstoppable, and by 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britain. That was also the year that financier J. P. Morgan mounted a major challenge to Carnegies steel empire and while Carnegie believed he could beat Morgan in a battle lasting five, 10 or 15 years, the fight did not appeal to the 64-year old man, thus he wrote a proposal for the sale of his plant to Morgan Andrew Carnegies philanthropic career began around 1870. He is best known for his gifts of free public library buildings. His first such gift was to his native Dunfermline in 1881, and it was followed by similar gifts to 2,509 communities in the English-speaking world. Further, Carnegie spent his leisure time traveling. He also wrote several books, including Triumphant Democracy (1886), which pointed out the advantages of American life over the unequal societies of Britain and other European countries.

Early life of Andre Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, the son of William Carnegie, a weaver, and Margaret Morrison Carnegie. The invention of weaving machines replaced the work Carnegies father did, and eventually the family was forced into poverty. In 1848 the family left Scotland and settled in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Carnegies father found a job in a cotton factory, but he soon quit to return to his home handloom, making linens and trying to sell them door to door. Carnegie also worked in the cotton factory, but after his father died in 1855, his strong desire to help take care of the family pushed him to educate himself. He became an avid reader, a theatergoer, and a lover of music.

Carnegie became a messenger boy for the Pittsburgh telegraph office. He later became a telegraph operator. Thomas A. Scott, superintendent of the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, made the eighteen-year-old Carnegie his secretary. Carnegie was soon earning enough salary to buy a house for his mother. During the Civil War (186165), when Scott was named assistant secretary of war in charge of transportation, Carnegie helped organize the military telegraph system. But he soon returned to Pittsburgh to take Scotts old job with the railroad (Encyclopedia of World Biography).

Freuds sex and aggression drives
According to Freud, we only have two drives sex and aggression.  In other words, everything we do is motivated by one of these two drives. Sex, also called Eros or the Life force, represents our drive to live, prosper, and produce offspring. Andrew Carnegies wit, creativity and overly burdened by the eager to spend more time with his wife Louise, whom he had married in 1886, and their daughter, Margaret made him sell his plant to J. P. Morgan

Aggression, also called Thanatos or our Death force, represents our need to stay alive and stave off threats to our existence, our power, and our prosperity. The oldest reason for human aggression is that humans are programmed to be violent and aggressive. This explanation suggests that violence is an inherent built-in tendency in humans (Freud). Fond of saying that the man who dies rich dies disgraced, Carnegie turned his attention to giving away his fortune during his retirement. Carnegie also was one of the first to call for a league of nations and he built a palace of peace that would later evolve into the World Court indicating his aggression drive. Generally, looking at Andrew Carnegies adult personality, I dont see evidence of fixation related behaviors from the stages of psychosexual development