george herbert mead introduced the idea of personality being a product of id ego and superego.
george herbert mead introduced the idea of personality being a product of id ego and superego.
who introduced the idea of personality being a product of id ego and superego?
george herbert mead
sigmund freud determined that the personality consists of three different elements, the id, the ego and the superego. the id is the aspect of personality that is driven by internal and basic drives and needs. these are typically instinctual, such as hunger, thirst, and the drive for sex, or libido. the id acts in accordance with the pleasure principle, in that it avoids pain and seeks pleasure. due to the instinctual quality of the id, it is impulsive and often unaware of implications of actions. the ego is driven by the reality principle. the ego works to balance the id and superego, by trying to achieve the id's drive in the most realistic ways. it seeks to rationalize the id's instinct and please the drives that benefit the individual in the long term. it helps separate what is real, and realistic of our drives as well as being realistic about the standards that the superego sets for the individual. the superego is driven by the morality principle. it acts in connection with the morality of higher thought and action. instead of instinctively acting like the id, the superego works to act in socially acceptable ways. it employs morality, judging our sense of wrong and right and using guilt to encourage socially acceptable behavior.
psychoanalytic theory
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