Psychology

Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) believed that personality had 3 structures; the id, the ego and the superego. According to Freud the id is the structure of the personality that consists of instincts and he believed that the id is totally unconscious and therefore has no contact with reality(Freud, pp 43-91).

As children develop they experience the concepts of reality and Freud believed this resulted in a new structure of reality emerging - the ego. The ego is the structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality. The ego uses reasoning to make decisions however both the id and the ...