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The concept known as the superego was one of the most famous concepts coined by the all-important Austrian psychoanalyst and researcher Sigmund Freud, father of the psychoanalysis and perhaps one of the most important thinkers in the field of psychology in the history. After doing extensive work with patients of different types and psychic conditions, Freud determined that the apparatus psychic or the psyche, the mind, could be divided or organized in large traits in three particular spaces or structures that each fulfilled a function and had specific characteristics.

At the base or in the most spontaneous or natural section of the psyche of a person we find the id, the structure that is relates to desires, to bodily sensations, and to the interest in fulfilling and satisfying those needs at the physical. This level is unconscious and responds more than anything to stimuli. Then the self continues, the level that supposes full conscience and that is the one in which the person is consciously most of her life. Finally, the superego is the highest instance since it is the one that imposes

morality or control over the other two, especially over the id when it comes to desires and fantasies. It is important to note that the self is perhaps the instance of Balance between one and the other since it involves a combination of elements from both parts.

The superego is what makes a person not behave socially like an animal or a beast. The superego is the one that imposes socially approved behaviors, the one that contributes to generating rational sensations such as modesty, Dear, control, measure. It is then linked more than with the desire with the will, with the capacity that a person has to control their impulses and conform to socially accepted patterns of behavior. It is also the instance in which the rules and norms that govern social life appear. Although the superego has some contact with consciousness since they are all rational and not impulsive actions, an important part of a person's superego is unconscious and causes the himself acts in a certain way from the way he has been raised, from different traumatic situations that he has lived and that the individual cannot easily recognize on his own same.

Themes in Superego