Correct Answer - Option 1 : True
Freud described the personality in terms of three components – ID, which operates at the unconscious level, EGO, which operates at the conscious level and SUPEREGO which operates mostly at the unconscious level but sometimes also at the conscious level. These three areas of personality constantly interact with one another as a means of regulating an individual’s behavior.
Antithesis is the direct opposite to someone or something. Here, the superego is directly opposite to ID.
ID:
- It is the most primitive part of the system, is present from birth, and is derived from Freud’s concept of the unconscious.
- The Id can therefore be seen as the repository for everything which is fixed, instinctual and inherited in a person’s make up.
- The personality of the new born is only ID and only later it develops superego and ego.
- The Id, which is governed by the Pleasure Principle, therefore needs to be modified or regulated, and this function is fulfilled by the Ego, the second part of Freud’s system.
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Id always says just do it.
The Superego :
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The Superego, or Morality Principle, is the third psychological process in Freud’s model of human personality. This develops at around the age of three and is composed of internalised values, ideals and moral precepts, all of which derive from parental and other authority figures.
- It is that part of personality which is concerned with right and, wrong, and is capable of generating guilt when people transgress their own or society’s moral code.
- The task for the Ego is to maintain a balance or equilibrium between the demands of the Id on the one hand, and the structures of the Superego on the other.
- Superego always says just don't do it.
The Ego :
- It is described as the arbiter, the manger or the executive of the total personality system, since its function is to deal with the demands of the Id in a realistic way.
- The Ego is governed by the Reality Principle – which means that it must devise ways of satisfying the demands of the Id, while simultaneously deciding what behavior and actions are appropriate at any given rime.
Thus, it is concluded that "The super ego is the direct antithesis of Id." This statement is true.
