The structure of Personality - Psychodynamic Approach
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- The structure of personality - Psycho dynamic approach
- THE SUPEREGO
- Around the age of 5, our internalised sense of right and wrong
- Based on the morality principle it represents the moral standards of the childs same sex parent and punishes the ego for wrongdoing through guilt.
- Formed at the end of the phallic stage
- THE ID
- Primitive part of our personality
- Only the id is present at birth throughout life the id is entirely selfish and demands instant gratification of its needs.
- Operates the pleasure principle - the ID gets what it wants.
- It is a seething mass of unconscious drives and instincts.
- THE EGO
- THE SUPEREGO
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