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Id, Ego and Super Ego - ljopljoljkp
Course: Imation intelligent (fws211)
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University: Abu Dhabi University
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Id, Ego and Superego
By Saul McLeod, published Oct 25, 2017
Perhaps Freud's single most enduring and important idea was that the human
psyche (personality) has more than one aspect.
Freud's personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts
(i.e., tripartite), the id, ego and superego, all developing at different stages in
our lives. These are systems, not parts of the brain, or in any way physical.
According to Freud's model of the psyche, the id is the primitive and
instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and
hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is
the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-
ego.