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    The id is the primitive, instinctual part of personality containing biological drives like libido and aggression. It operates on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification through illogical, fantasy thinking. The ego develops to mediate between the id and reality. It works according to the reality principle, using reason to find realistic ways to satisfy the id's demands while avoiding negative consequences. The superego incorporates societal morals and values learned from parents. It controls the id's impulses through the conscience, which causes guilt, and the ideal self, which rewards pride or punishes through perceived failure.

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    The id is the primitive, instinctual part of personality containing biological drives like libido and aggression. It operates on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification through illogical, fantasy thinking. The ego develops to mediate between the id and reality. It works according to the reality principle, using reason to find realistic ways to satisfy the id's demands while avoiding negative consequences. The superego incorporates societal morals and values learned from parents. It controls the id's impulses through the conscience, which causes guilt, and the ideal self, which rewards pride or punishes through perceived failure.

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    The Id, Ego, Super ego

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    The id is the primitive, instinctual part of personality containing biological drives like libido and aggression. It operates on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification through illogical, fantasy thinking. The ego develops to mediate between the id and reality. It works according to the reality principle, using reason to find realistic ways to satisfy the id's demands while avoiding negative consequences. The superego incorporates societal morals and values learned from parents. It controls the id's impulses through the conscience, which causes guilt, and the ideal self, which rewards pride or punishes through perceived failure.

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    The id (or it)

    The id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality. It consists of all the inherited
    (i.e. biological) components of personality, including the sex (life) instinct Eros (which
    contains the libido), and the aggressive (death) instinct - Thanatos.
    The id is the impulsive (andunconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and
    immediately to the instincts. The personality of the newborn child is all id and only later does
    it develop an ego and super-ego.

    The id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure,
    when it is denied we experience unpleasure or pain. The id is not affected by reality, logic
    or the everyday world.

    On the contrary, it operates on thepleasure principle (Freud, 1920) which is the idea that every
    wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences.
    The id engages in primary process thinking, which is primitive illogical, irrational, and
    fantasy oriented.

    The Ego (or I)


    Initially the ego is 'that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the
    external world' (Freud 1923).
    The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world.
    It is the decision making component of personality. Ideally the ego works by reason,
    whereas the id is chaotic and totally unreasonable.

    The ego operates according to the reality principle, working out realistic ways of satisfying
    the ids demands, often compromising or postponing satisfaction to avoid negative
    consequences of society. The ego considers social realities and norms, etiquette and rules
    in deciding how to behave.
    Like the id, the ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain, but unlike the id the ego is concerned
    with devising a realistic strategy to obtain pleasure. Freud made the analogy of the id being
    a horse while the ego is the rider. The ego is 'like a man on horseback, who has to hold in
    check the superior strength of the horse' (Freud, 1923, p.15).
    Often the ego is weak relative to the headstrong id and the best the ego can do is stay on,
    pointing the id in the right direction and claiming some credit at the end as if the action were
    its own.
    The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is good simply if it achieves its end of
    satisfying without causing harm to itself or to the id. It engages in secondary process
    thinking, which is rational, realistic, and orientated towards problem solving.

    The Superego (or above I)


    The superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learned from one's
    parents and others. It develops around the age of 3 5 during the phallic stage
    ofpsychosexual development.
    The superego's function is to control the id's impulses, especially those which society
    forbids, such as sex and aggression. It also has the function of persuading the ego to turn to
    moralistic goals rather than simply realistic ones and to strive for perfection.
    The superego consists of two systems: The conscience and the ideal self. The conscience
    can punish the ego through causing feelings of guilt. For example, if the ego gives in to the
    id's demands, the superego may make the person feel bad through guilt.
    The ideal self (or ego-ideal) is an imaginary picture of how you ought to be, and represents
    career aspirations, how to treat other people, and how to behave as a member of society.
    Behavior which falls short of the ideal self may be punished by the superego through guilt.
    The super-ego can also reward us through the ideal self when we behave properly by
    making us feel proud.
    If a persons ideal self is too high a standard, then whatever the person does will represent
    failure. The ideal self and conscience are largely determined in childhood from parental
    values and how you were brought up.

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