It is said that the three parts are always present in the personality: ID OR IT, EGO OR I, and SUPER EGO OR SUPER ME. Therefore, Freud is one of the greatest representatives of Psychology, especially Psychoanalysis; indicates that each of these parts fulfills a primary function in the personality of the individual in a different way. Therefore, it is necessary to know what each of these parts are.
Freud thought that identification is the most important aspect of our personality and also that identification is present from birth, identification is the most disorganized part of our personality and contains our basic and instinctive motives. If these wishes are not immediately fulfilled, the result is stress and anxiety for the individual.
According to Freud, identification is the source of all psychic energy, making it the most important aspect of personality. The Id is controlled by the "pleasure principle", which means that all our actions are to avoid punishment and to instantly increase pleasure. Basically the Id is hungry because you have to eat to increase the pleasure. It is the desire for power, a normal human instinct. It is the sexual desire to satisfy our desires to have offspring and pass on our genes. The Id contains all the reasons to increase our instinctual desires and motives. An example of the pleasure principle is that if you are hungry, you will choose food to eat and solve the problem instantly.
The ego develops the logical logic that we cannot have everything we want. The ego relates us to the real world and how life works. The ego's job is to indulge the joys of identification, but in a reasonable way. The ego is comparable to the thinking of an adult or a child when it enters its rational age.
The ego is patient and responsible for making our minds understand that we can get something if we wait long enough.
The superego or super me. The part of the personality that influences self-observation, self- criticism, and other reflective activities. The part of the mind in which parents are introjected. The Superego differs from consciousness in that:
a) belongs to a different frame of reference, morality rather than ethics (what should be done, rather than whether it is good or bad), b) includes unconscious elements, and c) emanates from it, orders and inhibitions that come from the subject's past and may be in conflict with their present ethical values.
Conscience is often confused with the Superego, however, when ethical conscience develops beyond convention, autonomous conscience can replace the morality installed by the Superego.
