Question

During recess melissa noticed that another girl dropped the doll she was playing with. According to freud's theory, melissa's ___________ would tell her to grab the doll and keep it as her own whereas her ___________ would tell her that taking another girl's doll would be wrong.

Answer 1

According to freud's theory, melissa's "id" would tell her to grab the doll and keep it as her own whereas her "superego" would tell her that taking another girl's doll would be wrong.

The id is the impulsive (and oblivious) some portion of our mind which reacts straightforwardly and quickly to the impulses. The identity of the infant tyke is all id and just later does it build up a ego and super-ego.

The superego's capacity is to control the id's driving forces, particularly those which society disallows, for example, sex and hostility. It likewise has the capacity of convincing the sense of self to swing to moralistic objectives as opposed to just practical ones and to take a stab at flawlessness.