Don’t Let Your Superego Crush Your Id
By Keith Sherwood
In 1923, Sigmund Freud suggested that the psyche is structured into three parts that develop at different stages in a human being’s life. The three parts that were the product of his intuition, insight, and clinical experience are the Ego, Superego, and Id.
The Ego
According to Freud, the ego is the pragmatic part of mind that mediates between the primal …