What does the term river stage mean? Water science questions and answers, from the USGS Water Science School
According to Sigmund Freud, the ego is part of personality that mediates the demands of the id, the superego and reality. The ego prevents us from acting on our basic urges (created by the id), but also works to achieve a balance with our moral and idealistic standards (created by the superego).
in psychoanalytic theory, one of the three major parts of the personality, the others being the id and the superego. The word ego is Latin for âI,â that is, self or individual as distinguished from other persons. The ego is represented by certain mental mechanisms, such as perception and memory, and specific defense mechanisms that are used to adjust to the demands of primitive instinctual drives (the id) and the demands of the external world (superego).