Id, Superego, And The Ego: A Psychological Analysis

According to the Psychoanalysis Theory proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1896, he proposed that people are each exposed to formative insights in their childhood, and although they may have forgotten those important events, the experiences are continuing to inform the moment to moment recreation of themselves. In Freud’s work, he also articulated and refined the concepts of unconscious, infantile sexuality and repression, and he proposed a tripartite account of the minds structure. These tripartite mental structures are namely the Id, Superego, and the Ego.

Let us first define these three mental structure before we look into the interaction between these mental structure and how it influences the way people express themselves. Firstly, the Id, it is the unconscious part of our mind and is
These psychosexual develop in many different stages, namely the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, and the Genital phase. The Oral phase is associated with all the feelings around ingestion or eating, which aids to the development of the Id. The Anal phase is closely related to the following of instructions, which aids to the development of the Ego and Superego. The Phallic phase suggest that little children have sexual feeling, leading to the idea of oedipus complex that concentrate upon a child’s desire to have sexual relations with their parents, moreover, this feeling is repressed and hidden in the unconscious part of the mind. The Latent phase deals with the socialism skills that a children develop through social interactions, which aids to the superego development. Lastly, the Genital phase which relates to the sexual desire of individual with the opposite sex. These psychosexual development will collectively affect the tripartite mental structure of an individual and hence affecting the way people expresses