CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It is the moral principle of the Freudian personality structure. It shows the behavior from the combination of all the interactions between personality structures. It is referred as the “little devil” wherein all negative aspects of the personality structure lives. Ego, ID and Superego should maintain balance.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -The id is what drives our needs and desires, and the superego strives for morality and perfection. The ego is the mediator between the two that tries to fulfill the needs of the id and the superego while accounting for the demands of reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -Id, Ego, and Superego. Freud proposed that the mind is divided into three components: id, ego, and superego, and that the interactions and conflicts among the components create personality (Freud, 1923/1949).

Detailed explanation-5: -EGO: For Freud, the ego is “the representative of the outer world to the id” ("Ego and the Id” 708). In other words, the ego represents and enforces the reality-principle whereas the id is concerned only with the pleasure-principle.