The superego isn’t innate, it’s constructed during childhood and over time. If the superego is a judge, the judge doesn’t always have a good image, is he a protector or a dictator? In fact, the superego is neither good nor bad, it’s simply our inner law. Immobility on the other hand is the driving force of death: so long live difficulty, contradiction, anxiety, failure, doubt, that’s life! What if the superego becomes too strong? 👉 According to Freud, the struggle between these forces, the ego, the id and the superego, is the driving force of life, it’s even life itself. And then there’s the Ego, the conscience, the mediator. This is the part of us that’s balanced between our id and its desires, our superego and its severity and the outside world.Imagine the superego as the little voice that whispers to you: “you’re rubbish”, “you shouldn’t have”, “it would be better”, “you shouldn’t”, etc. The superego is the one who forbids us, who punishes us, it’s the moral which the self is obliged to take into account. The Superego can be presented as a judge, but it could just as well be a severe parent or a zealous police officer.It’s the passion that the ego tries to rationalize, but according to Freud, “The id doesn’t know or support contradiction.” It’s the raw part that inhabits us, the part of impulses, desire, longing. It’s only goal is to satisfy itself. There’s the you that thinks, the you that makes love and the you that punishes. It’s quite simple: imagine that you’re three people in one. What’s the difference between the ego and the superego?
There is what we control and our dreams, our slips of the tongue that are beyond our control and yet say a lot about us.
our conscience and the inner, the depths, our psyche 🧠. In fact, there would be our surface, i.e. My conscience enables me to project myself, to feel, to act, to represent myself. In his Second Tropic of 1923, Freud introduced the idea that man is not just a conscience, but has three instances inside him that govern his behavior: the Ego, the Id and the Superego. If you remember your philosophy classes, Descartes said: “I think therefore I am”, which implies that I’m a being endowed with a conscience and that I’m not in the world like an object placed on a shelf. The ego, the id and the superego: The Freudian revolution
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