allport took issue with freud on several crucial points First he argued that the role of the unconscious had been exaggerated Allport did not believe that unconscious forces dominate or even play a major role in the personality of the normal mature adult.Rather he saw the healthy normal individual as functioning in rational and conscious terms aware of and controlling many of the forces that motivate him or her. The unconscious according to allport is of importance in neurotic or disturbed functioning but not in the normal person