Tripartite Personality

• Reality Principle 
• Conscience 
• Supposed to be dominant 

• Mortality Principle
• Right and Wrong 

• Pleasure Principle 
• It gets What it Wants 

• They Fight (conflict) to be Dominant. 

• Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind  

ie- forgetting the trauma of a faviroute pet dying 

• Refusing to Acknowledge some aspect of reality 

ie- turning up for work even though you have been sacked. 

• Transferring feelings from a true source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target 

ie- slamming a door after having an arugment with your partner