Personality development

• Our personality is made up of ID the ego and the superego.
• Freud believes that these are separate and conflict forces with each other.
• The Id

  • According to Freud, the ID is the personality construct that we are born with.
  • its energy is called the “libido”. it’s means survival drive.
  • it operates on the pleasure principle.
  • it is the source of our most primal wishes, desires and fears.
• The superego

  • sometimes called the “internalised parent“.
  • the superego operates on the morality principle- it included our understanding of the right and wrong.
  • it develops around the age of 5, mostly as a result of us internalising rules passed down from our parents and society.
  • it opposes the id and acts as our “conscience“.
• The ego

  • the ego is the reality principle .
  • it must balance the drives of the id and the control of the superego
  • it attempts to make our desired socially acceptable.
• The id and the superego have polar opposite ideas to each other. They can be seen as the devil and the angel. The ego is a compromise between the two.
• Weak superego- less guilt about doing criminals activities or hurting others - we cannot overpower or inhibit the id.
• A too harsh superego- feelings of guilt and the need for punishment - you Might commit crime in order to be caught.
• A deviant superego- we have been socialised into a deviant moral code. We identify well with our parents if they are criminals.