Question

Describe a recent situation when you had to make a choice. What Id urges were evident in this example? How do these urges reflect the pleasure principle? What demands of the super ego were present in this example? How do these demands reflect the conscience? Explain how the ego made the final choice in this example. How did this choice reflect the reality principle?

Answer 1

Answer.) I was at an official meeting with my boss and there was lunch served outside and I was very hungry . So my Id that is the pleasure principle told me to go and just et all the food . It would give me so much pleasure . But as my boss was present it was not moral to eat like that without asking and before him . Here my superego played that is the morality principle. Now I was hungry and also I could not eat before my boss . So my EGO came into play at this moment. I asked my boss if I could eat since I was having a headache . That is the reality principle. My boss gave me the permission and I ate my lunch .

Id , ego amd superego are parts of personality. Id works on the pleasure principle , ego works on the reality principle and superego works on morality principle. It is the job of ego to maintain a balance between the two i.e. id and superego.