Non-religious ideas: Freud

• What are the three parts of the human soul?

  The id, super-ego and ego
• What is the id?

  The unconscious and instinctive part of the personality at the level of its basic physical and emotional needs
• What is the ego?

  The rational self
• What is the super-ego?

  The controlling, restraining self
• How does the super-ego have an important role in developing a person's morality?

  It acts as an 'inner parent' in the sense that it can be the place where your parents' moral commands delivered from infancy are stored
• Why is the conscience an aspect of the super-ego?

  The rules and regulations given to us by authority figures are internalised so that we cannot escape them. To try to do so brings about guilt. In this way, conscience is the repository of our parents' commands to us during childhood
• What does Freud say about an active conscience?

  An active conscience tends to be a guilty conscience