AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The superego consists of two systems: The conscience and the ideal self. The conscience is our ‘inner voice’ that tells us when we have done something wrong. The conscience can punish the ego through causing feelings of guilt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The superego is the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates. The superego’s criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibitions form a person’s conscience, and its positive aspirations and ideals represent one’s idealized self-image, or “ego ideal.” Sigmund Freud.

Detailed explanation-3: -Guilt is mainly generated in the part of the mind Freud called the “superego.” When primitive states and desires-what Freud called the “id” and subsequently the “id derivatives”-arise, they come into contact with superego restrictions.

Detailed explanation-4: -The primary action of the superego is to suppress entirely any urges or desires of the id that are considered wrong or socially unacceptable. It also tries to force the ego to act morally rather than realistically. Finally, the superego strives for moral perfections, without taking reality into account.

Detailed explanation-5: -Freud divided the superego into two parts: the ego ideal and the conscience. The ego ideal is the idealistic view of what is right, while the conscience is that sense of guilt, or the view of what is considered wrong.