EGO (Murray)

• EGO is the rational governor of personality
• Murray opposes Freud's contention that EGO is the slave of ID, SUPEREGO, and the REALITY
• EGO organizes our behaviors coming from the ID impulse whether good or bad
• EGO is the central organizer of all behaviors
• EGO plans courses of action
• EGO suppresses unaccepted ID impulses and promote accepted ID impulses pleasure
• EGO is the arbiter of the two contenders, ID and SUPEREGO. It may favor one over the other


  EXAMPLE: Ego supports Id. This support leads the personality towards a life of crime
• SOMETIMES, EGO may favor both, the ID and SUPEREGO


  EXAMPLE: Ego supports both. This thing leads to the harmony between what a person wants to do and what the society expects from a person
• In Murray's system, CONFLICT can arise between the ID and SUPEREGO

  A STRONG EGO can mediate effectively between the two, but a WEAK EGO leaves the personality a battleground