Character (n.) is able to be derived from one's sexual behavior. The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Character (n.) contains the history of repression within itself.
Character (n.) is “a precipitate of abandoned object-cathexes.”
Character (n.) persists in dreams: everyone who appears in a dream acts and speaks in complete accordance with his character.
Character (n.) is built on the memory-traces of our impressions — and the ones that shaped us most, those of earliest youth, scarcely ever become conscious.
Character (n.) is a precipitate of abandoned loves; it contains the history of our object-choices.
Character (n.) is seldom altogether good or bad — usually good in one relation and bad in another, good in some circumstances and decidedly bad in others.
Character (n.) is built from the parents installed as super-ego, from later identifications, from old loves given up, and from reaction-formations against unwanted impulses.
Character (n.) cannot settle when no stage of love is ever fully replaced by the next; all survive side by side, and the person vacillates forever.
Character (n.) is partly inborn: each ego has its own fixed choice of defences from the start.
Character (n.) is modeled on sexual life: a girl who wet her shoes trying to copy her brother could never again try a thing twice.
Character (n.) is repression that worked: where neurosis has failed repression and the return of the repressed, character has reaction-formation and sublimation.
Character (n.) is made of old instincts: carried on unchanged, sublimated, or turned into their opposites.
Character (n.) is built from forgotten traumas: their effects harden into immutable traits precisely because their origin has been forgotten.