But only if we are aware of them and understand them. Ego’s job is to meet the conflicting demands of reality, Id and super-ego and still preserve its own true identity.įreud: The struggles between Id and super-ego can be the source of our growth and progress as individuals. David obviously has little sense of his own identity. Our childhood relations with ours parents, said Freud, govern all our later affections and often fill them with anxiety. Super-ego: Honor thy mother! Honor thy mother! David? David?! What are you doing down in basement with your sister?ĭavid: Yeah! Let’s go! But you’re sure it’s alright? I mean, you’re sure your roommate’s out. Id: I want! I want! Warm, warm! I want, Oh, I want! Peggy: Well! We could go back to my place. I want! Warm, warm!ĭavid: It’s kind of boring here, isn’t it?ĭavid: I don’t know. According to Freud the ego develops from the ID and ensures that the impulses of the ID can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world. Id: I want! Oh, I want! Dear David, baby, put your head on mammy’s breast. The id is the primitive part of the brain, instinctual, driven by emotion. Super-ego: David, little gentleman, don’t stare at ladies! You know better than that. Id: I want! I want! More, more! I want! I want! Every time I go to your place, there is your roommate. Cooper is based on unconscious hate of his own father caused by childhood jealousy - by the Oedipus complex.įreud said that without insight into these dark forces we are doomed to play out our lives in an endless dramatization of our childhood relations with our parents.ĭavid: It’s great to be alone with you Peggy.ĭavid: Well! You know what I mean. Thank you for letting me explain.ĭavid’s hate for Mr. Oh, I love him!ĭavid: Mr.Cooper I will go and see Mr. I’m taking you mother away in holiday, David. Super-ego: Honor thy father, Honor thy father, or you will be punished. Super-ego: You’re father is a good man David. Now don’t interrupt me when I’m telling you … Id: I’ll smash him! I’ll smash him! I kill you father! Cooper: Oh! He didn’t give you anything in writing?! … Cooper I am certain he made a commitment. Now which is it? I have to be in a position where I‘ve got to know!ĭavid: Well! Mr. Cooper: Just, what do you mean you’re not sure, David, either you have got a firm commitment from Robinson or you haven’t. But who is also constantly affected by the demands of Id and super ego. So I found there are three distinct elements in our personalities:Įgo deals with the world of reality.

Super-ego is rigid, punishing and repressive an inheritance from the repression of our parents, and the restrictions that are a part of the society we grow up in. Id is opposed by another force that I call super ego. Id is the blind instinct of sexual desire and aggression. Id, Id is all that is primitive and infantile within us. But Ego is never the master of self for we are constantly be deviled by powerful unconscious forces in our beings.īefore Ego developed in us, there was Id. There is the self we think we are, the self that attempts to deal with the outside world of reality.

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