CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ego mediates and balances the opposing motives and drives of the id and superego with reality. The dynamic interaction of these three structures produces tension and conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud’s personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts (i.e., tripartite), the id, ego and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -According to Freud, the id, ego, and superego interact, therefore, balancing the three requires what Freud referred to as ego strength. Interactions between these three components of the personality are balanced when the ego is able to balance the demands of the id, superego, and reality.