A Chip on Your Shoulder Meaning Definition: A bad attitude that tends to get someone upset easily, oftentimes stemming from a grudge held against someone. The idiom chip on oneâs shoulder refers to someone with a belligerent attitude or grievance, which usually comes from a grudge one holds against someone or something. This bad attitude most often refers to perceived unjust treatment.
The reason why the period in which Freud lived was important and significant in shaping and sharing of his ideas was because he lived in a very conservative period where people weren't inclined to discuss certain things. What he did however was he showed that the superficial niceness of people had certain causes.
Erikson believed that childhood is very important in personality development and, unlike Freud, felt that personality continued to develop beyond five years of age. In his most influential work, Childhood and Society (1950), he divided the human life cycle into eight psychosocial stages of development.