Tag: Super-Ego

The Animal in Us

| May 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

by Mrs. Freud Last month I kicked off the new column with one of Freud´s three parts of the personality structure: “ID – Ego – Super-Ego” (find at www.HealthwithTaste.blogspot.com). This month I continue with the second one, the ID. The ID is all about primitive and animalistic drives, desires and pleasure. It contains our instinctive […]

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The Super-Ego – an Ego on Steroids?

| April 1, 2013 | 0 Comments
The Super-Ego – an Ego on Steroids?

by Mrs. Freud Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, coined the term “Super-Ego.” It is a concept we all carry inside ourselves that helps us with ethical conduct and moral decisions. It is responsible for self-imposed standards of behavior. We “acquire” the Super-Ego while growing up and getting feedback from our parents on our behavior, […]

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