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.” Sigmund Freud.

Detailed explanation-2: -The superego tries to perfect and civilize our behavior. It suppresses all id’s unacceptable urges and struggles to make the ego act upon idealistic standards rather than on realistic principles. The superego is present in the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -When this occurs, the individual may take in, or introject, a harsh superego. This means the person may be extremely hard on themselves, self-judging, and self-critical. It may be in the area of body image, intelligence, competence, attractiveness, or any area of self-functioning.