Criticism of orthodox Freudian theory by other psychoanalysts has focused primarily on Freud’s neglect of social influences. According to such neo-Freudians as Alfred Adler, Karen Homey, Erich Fromm, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Erik Erikson, Freud placed too much emphasis upon the instinctive and biological aspects of personality.
He failed to recognize that people are largely products of the social in which they live. These later psychoanalysts see personality as shaped much more by the people society, and culture that surround the individual than by instincts.