PERSONALITY
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORIES
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The selfish evolutionary instincts that we are born with.
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The realistic decision maker.
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Our moral sense of right and wrong.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The superego is the final part of the personality, emerging between the ages of 3 and 5, the phallic stage in Freud’s stages of psychosexual development. The superego is the moral compass of the personality, upholding a sense of right and wrong.
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.”
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the id is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.
Detailed explanation-4: -The superego is one of three components comprising personality, operating as our conscience, and advising what is wrong through guilt. The primary function of the superego is to inform the ego of moral considerations, curb the id of unacceptable desires, and promote perfectionistic standards of behavior.