The controlling, postponing function of the ego must be continuously exercised or the impulses of the id would dominate and overthrow the rational ego. Individuals must constantly protect themselves from being controlled by the id, and freud postulated a variety of mechanisms (to be discussed later) by which people may defend their egos.
Thus far we have a picture of the individual in battle, to restrain the id while at the same time serving it, perceiving and manipulating reality so as to relieve the tensions of the id impulses. Human beings are driven by their biological instinctual forces, which they are continually trying to guide-walking the tightrope between the demands of reality and those of the id, both of which require constant attention.
But that is not Freud's complete picture of human nature. There is a third set of forces –a powerful and largely unconscious set of dictates or beliefs which the individual learns in childhood: his or her ideas of right and wrong. In everyday language we this internal morality a "conscience Freud called it the superego. This moral side of the Personality is leaned, usually by the age of 5 or 6, and consists initially of the rules of conduct set down by the parents.
The controlling, postponing function of the ego must be continuously exercised or the impulses of the id would dominate and overthrow the rational ego. Individuals must constantly protect themselves from being controlled by the id, and freud postulated a variety of mechanisms (to be discussed later) by which people may defend their egos.
Thus far we have a picture of the individual in battle, to restrain the id while at the same time serving it, perceiving and manipulating reality so as to relieve the tensions of the id impulses. Human beings are driven by their biological instinctual forces, which they are continually trying to guide-walking the tightrope between the demands of reality and those of the id, both of which require constant attention.
But that is not Freud's complete picture of human nature. There is a third set of forces –a powerful and largely unconscious set of dictates or beliefs which the individual learns in childhood: his or her ideas of right and wrong. In everyday language we this internal morality a "conscience Freud called it the superego. This moral side of the Personality is leaned, usually by the age of 5 or 6, and consists initially of the rules of conduct set down by the parents.
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