The present study was designed to analyze association between problematic internet use and use of ego defense mechanisms in medical students. It is the source of moral censorship and conscience. Whereas the id operates in pursuit of pleasure and the ego is governed by the reality principle, the superego bids the psychic apparatus to pursue idealistic goals and perfection. The superego is a further differentiation of the ego, which represents its ‘ideal.’ The superego emerges as a consequence of the Oedipal drama, whereby the child takes on the authority and magnificence of parental figures through introjection or identification. It is the center of reason, reality testing, and commonsense, and has at its command, a range of defensive stratagems that can deflect, repress, or transform the expression of unrealistic or forbidden drive energies.
It is the ‘executive’ of the personality in the sense that it regulates libidinal drive energies so that satisfaction accords with the demands of reality. The ego is a modification of the id that emerges as a result of the direct influence of the external world. It is a reservoir of basic instinctual drives, particularly sexual (libidinal) drives, which motivate the organism to seek pleasure. The id is the oldest and the most primitive psychic agency, representing the biological foundations of personality. According to Freud, the superego “applies the strictest moral standard to the helpless ego which is at its mercy in general, it represents the claims of morality, and we realize all at once that our moral sense of guilt is the expression of the tension between the ego and the super-ego.” This shows the brightness of the superego where a person learns about morality where they know what is good vs bad and are able to distinguish them such as knowing that stealing is a wrong thing to do.Sigmund Freud divided mental life into three agencies or ‘provinces’ that is, id, ego, and superego. The ego mediates between what one wants (id) and shoulds(SuperEgo). SuperEgo satisfies the id and the ego, balances it out. Gives a sense of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and pride. Derives from the values we see in family and society. SuperEgo – Conscious part of personality. Freud is declaring that the ego is not only trying to get the id and superego happy but also the exterior world. To further add, the reason we came to this conclusion of what was the definition for the ego was that Freud declared “The relation to the external world has become the decisive factor for the ego”. Develops after the battle between id and superego. Mediates between one wants (Id) and shoulds (superego). Resolves the issues between Id and Superego. The ego is after all only a portion of the id, a portion that has been expediently modified by the proximity of the external world (society) with its threat of danger.
Everyone is born with sexual instincts and the IdĮgo- The ego serves the id, superego, and the external world. **Everything comes back to the libido (sexual instincts). For example, Freud declares “We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations.” This shows how the Id has total control(governs) over newborns which is why they receive these types of desires.
Id – the most primitive/ instinctive part of your desires that contain desires, and hidden and unconscious (chaotic) thoughts.
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