Freud was a doctor and the founder of psychoanalysis, the first school of psychotherapy.
According to Freud, our personality has 3 different structures:
The id: which is the structure we are born with, it's the most basic one and is the one that aims for immediate satisfaction of our needs.
The super-id: which is the structure which forms later in life thanks to our interactions with other people. This structure is known as our "conscience" which tells us <u>what's right and wrong (ethics) and what is expected from us. </u>It is the one that "punishes" us in a psychological way when we do something wrong.
The id: is also known as "the self" and is the mediating structure of our personality. Which decides in each situation whether to satisfy the immediate desires of the id or to do what our "conscience" tells us.
Therefore, the part of Freud's personality structure that is associated with <u>ethics, standards and self-criticism </u>is the super-id.
