For example: You are losing weight and pass by a barbecue stall. Your id wants to eat meat, your ego wants to lose weight and cannot eat meat, and your superego says that eating meat is cruel to animals. If there is no trade, there will be no killing. .

1. The id originates from human biological desires and follows the principle of reckless pleasure, such as hunger, thirst, and sex.

2. The self originates from human beings’ adaptability to the environment, follows the realistic principle of roundabout satisfaction, and at the same time meets human biological and social needs in a way that is acceptable to the environment. It is the sum of a series of behavioral patterns. For example, when your id desire first asked you to steal something and you were punished, a part of yourself was formed.

3. The superego originates from human social desires and follows moral principles regardless of consequences, such as a sense of identity, belonging, and self-realization. For example, don't steal, study hard and get praise, give alms to the poor, vegetarians, etc.

Extended information:

1. In psychodynamic theory, the id, ego and superego are proposed by the structural theory of psychoanalyst Freud. Three parts. In 1923, Freud proposed related concepts to explain the formation and interrelationship between consciousness and subconsciousness.

2. "Id" (completely subconscious) represents desires and is suppressed by consciousness; "self" (mostly conscious) is responsible for dealing with things in the real world; "superego" (partially conscious) is the conscience or Internal moral judgment.

3. The id, ego, and superego constitute a person’s complete personality. All human psychological activities can be reasonably explained from the connection between them. The self exists permanently, and the superego and the id are almost permanently opposed. In order to coordinate the contradiction between the id and the superego, The ego needs to be regulated.

4. If an individual suffers too much pressure from the ego, superego and the outside world and causes anxiety, the ego will help activate the defense mechanism. Defense mechanisms include: repression, denial, regression, offset, projection, sublimation, etc.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Id, Ego and Superego