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ELI5: Id, Ego, Superego

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  • Id
    • Animal Instincts, desire for food, companionship, and sex.
    • A reservoirs of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.

  • Ego

    • The referee between Id and Superego
    • Center of consciousness. 
    • Possesses continuity and identity.
    • Contains four functions Sensation, Thinking, Feeling, and Intuition
    • The conscious, executive, part of personality that mediates, among the demands of id, superego and reality.
    • With the emergence of the ego one often has to recognize that the I that has lived so far is miniscule compared compared to the I that is possible, or that the I that has lived so far is a false I, confounded with false expectations trying to live life backside front.

  • Superego

    • The angel on our shoulder whispering to do the write thing
    • The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.