CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The superego is a part of the unconscious that is the voice of conscience (doing what is right) and the source of self-criticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The superego is the part of the mind that handles higher moral concepts, such as the concepts of right or wrong. The reality principle is based upon the tension between the id and the ego.

Detailed explanation-5: -Freud believed that the superego acts as the conscience that encourages the individual to meet society’s moral demands. The superego develops primarily from parental instructions and rules, and encourages the individual to rise above his or her base instincts and drives. It works in direct counterbalance to the id.