Freud proposed that the mind was made up of three elements.
There was the “ID”-an entirety unconscious part, the cauldron of our passions, where our death drive and our urge for sex could be found.
Then there was what he called the superego, an internal conscience which could impose impossible ideals and inflict merciless criticism.
The superego was a kind of strict moral guardian.
In conflict with the pleasure and death-seeking urges of the ID. Navigating between the warring mind and external reality was what Freud called the Ego.
Freud thought that psychoanalysis could help to strengthen the ego.
Although he never imagined that we’d be free of these internal conflicts, the best we can do is simply to live with them.
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